Allergic diseases are common in women of childbearing age. Both asthma and atopic conditions may worsen, improve or remain the same during pregnancy. Primary care physicians commonly encounter women receiving multiple medications for pre-existing atopic conditions, who then become pregnant and require medication changes to avoid potential fetal injury or congenital malformations. Each medicatio...

This study tested the null hypothesis that antihistamine-containing syrup does not change salivary metabolites in vitro and vivo. For experiments, saliva from 10 volunteers was mixed with a or pill suspension of loratadine (1 mg/ml Claritin®, Schering-Plough, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). vivo experiment, performed mouth rinse mL antihistamine (Claritin®; Brazil) for 20 seconds then discarded water....