OBJECTIVE Allergic rhinitis is common and on the rise. Antihistamines are the mainstay of treatment and are the most commonly prescribed drugs in Singapore. Treatment-related sedation and its effect on cognition are a major concern. First- and second-generation antihistamines show varying degrees of sedation, but to date, objective studies in children are lacking. The objective of this study wa...

It is accepted that studies evaluating histamine-induced wheal and flare reactions in the skin represent a simple and reliable method for demonstrating pharmacodynamic activity and pharmacokinetics of the H1-receptor antagonists. In this study, the effects of single oral doses of acrivastine (8 mg), loratadine (10 mg) and cetirizine (10 mg) on the histamine-induced wheal and flare reactions wer...

A simple, accurate and rapid high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC)- densitometric method was developed for separation and determination of cetirizine (CET) as a long acting antihistamine and montelukast (MON) as an antileukotriene in pharmaceutical dosage forms. The compounds were separated on silica gel 60 F254 HPTLC plates using a mixture of ethyl acetate : methanol : ammonia sol...

Background: Cedar pollinosis is a widespread seasonal allergy that is unique to Japan. Environmental exposure units (EEU) assist in the development of effective therapeutic and preventive measures because outdoor studies are limited by seasonal variation in pollen exposure. Objectives: We constructed an EEU to conduct a randomized cross-over double-blind placebo-controlled study of the effi cac...

Competition experiments with [H]mepyramine showed that cetirizine and its enantiomers, levocetirizine and (S)-cetirizine, bound with high affinity and stereoselectivity to human H1 histamine receptors (Ki values of 6, 3, and 100 nM, respectively). Cetirizine and levocetirizine were 600-fold more selective for H1 receptors compared with a panel of receptors and channels. Binding results indicate...

a stability indicating high-performance liquid chromatography (hplc) method wasvalidated and used to study the degradation of cetirizine dihydrochloride in acidic and oxidativeconditions. the separation was carried out on a symmetry c18 column and a mixture of 50 mmkh2po4 and acetonitrile (60:40 v/v, ph = 3.5) was used as the mobile phase. the method waslinear over the range of 1-20 μg/ml of ce...

The association between ADHD and allergy remains controversial. Our previous findings suggest that nerve growth factor may link the nervous and immune systems. The primary objective of this study was to determine if a combination of cetirizine + methylphenidate is effective in children with comorbid ADHD and allergic rhinitis. We also examined the role of nerve growth factor in these comorbidit...

In this article we describe development and validation of stability indicating, accurate, specific, precise and simple Ion-pairing RP-HPLC method for simultaneous determination of paracetamol and cetirizine HCl along with preservatives i.e. propylparaben, and methylparaben in pharmaceutical dosage forms of oral solution and in serum. Acetonitrile: Buffer: Sulfuric Acid (45:55:0.3 v/v/v) was the...