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in learning ability, antihistamines are effective remedy for hay fever and other conditions.

Antihistamine comes in sprays and drops for your nose or eyes.

All these are good. They differ in a number of ways, such as the size of the tablets, the length of time for which they act, how effective they are, the extent to which they may still have a slight tendency to cause sleepiness although all are superior to the old antihistamines, Fexofenadine (Telfast) is a development from terfenadine, its main advantage being an improvement in safety level. However, sprays for the nose are not as effective as steroid sprays, newer antihistamine eye drops are more important because steroid drops do cause serious side effects, especially when driving, The antihistamine eye drops works similar to the so-called anti-allergic eye drops with effective result. Levocabastine eye drops, levocabastine nasal spray and azelastine nasal spray are not sold over the counter; they come on prescription by your doctor.

With so many antihistamines, which mostly don't cause significant sleepiness, there is no good reason to take one, which makes you sleepy unless you particularly having sleeping difficulty, some of these can be purchase over the counter.
The category of antihistamines are, Acrivastine Cetirizine Fexofenadine Terfenadine Mizolastine Desloratadine.

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