An allergy question.

[urge]

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Let's say your patient has a bad allergic reaction. You give the usual tx of epi, steroids, benadryl, and tagamet. My question is: if the hosp is not buying tagamet anymore, can you use pepcid with the same results(H2 blocker)?

Anything else that can be tried?

 

[Planktonmd]

Let's say your patient has a bad allergic reaction. You give the usual tx of epi, steroids, benadryl, and tagamet. My question is: if the hosp is not buying tagamet anymore, can you use pepcid with the same results(H2 blocker)?

Anything else that can be tried?

Any H2 blocker should work.

 

[UMMS FMD]

Let's say your patient has a bad allergic reaction. You give the usual tx of epi, steroids, benadryl, and tagamet. My question is: if the hosp is not buying tagamet anymore, can you use pepcid with the same results(H2 blocker)?

Anything else that can be tried?

We use famotadine at my hospital...

 

[dfk]

i'm surprised people are still using cimetidine given it's poor interactions with many medications

 

[DrDre']

Actually, it has EXCELLENT interactions with other drugs! That's the problem...

i'm surprised people are still using cimetidine given it's poor interactions with many medications

 

[Planktonmd]

Actually, it has EXCELLENT interactions with other drugs! That's the problem...

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True!

 

[dfk]

Actually, it has EXCELLENT interactions with other drugs! That's the problem...

yea, that's what i meant. i guess 'poor' was a poor choice of wordage.

 

[urge]

That's what I did. I gave it. Felt funny though. Never heard of it being used for this.