ALLERGIC ACTIFEDDUO RHINITIS

ALLERGIC ACTIFEDDUO RHINITIS
Updated: Thursday, July 22nd, 2010.
Antiallergique: antihistamine and vasoconstrictor
Presentations of drug ACTIFEDDUO ALLERGIC RHINITIS
ACTIFEDDUO ALLERGIC LP RHINITIS: compressed with prolonged release (white); box of 10
Not refunded
Composition of ALLERGIC drug ACTIFEDDUO RHINITIS
p CP
Pseudoéphédrine hydrochlorate 120 Mg
Cétirizine dichlorhydrate 5 Mg
Lactose +

Cétirizine dichlorhydrate, Pseudoéphédrine hydrochlorate
In which case drug ACTIFEDDUO ALLERGIC RHINITIS is it prescribes?
This drug associates a relieving congestion vasoconstrictor and a nonsedative antihistamine antiallergic.

It is used in the symptomatic treatment of the allergic rhinitis of origin with nasal congestion (stopped nose).

Counter-indications of ALLERGIC drug ACTIFEDDUO RHINITIS
This drug should not be used in the following cases:
risk glaucome with closed angle;

risk blocking of the urines related to an adenoma of the prostate;

arterial hypertension not controlled by a specific treatment;

serious coronary insufficiency;

antecedent of convulsions;

antecedent of cerebral vascular accident;

serious impaired renal function;

in partnership with an antidepressant of the nonselective type IMAO or during at least 15 days after the catch of this one;

in partnership with another relieving congestion vasoconstrictor or a vasoconstrictor containing one of the following substances: bromocriptine, pergolide, lisuride, cabergoline, ergotamine or dihydroergotamine;

child of less than 15 years;

breast feeding.

Caution
This drug is on sale free. In the absence of medical opinion, it should however be used only in the event of reappearance of symptoms already diagnosed by a doctor.

The pseudoéphédrine can cause an acute glaucome at the predisposed people: red eye, hard and painful, with fuzzy vision. A consultation of extreme urgency near an ophthalmologist is necessary.

The relieving congestion vasoconstricteurs can increase the heart rate (tachycardia) and cause palpitations and nauseas. If these undesirable effects are marked too much, the treatment must be stopped.

They can also be responsible for rare complications (convulsions, hallucinations, abnormal agitation), in particular in the event of excessive posology. Respect the recommended amount.

It is preferable to take a medical opinion before using this drug in the event of hyperthyroïdie, of cardiac disease, diabetes or mental health disorders.

This drug can, in rare cases, to involve a fall of vigilance. You at the time of the first catches ensure that you support it well, before leading or using a dangerous machine.

Sportsman: this drug contains a substance considered as stimulative (phényléphrine, pseudoéphédrine or synéphrine) which appears in the monitoring program 2004 of the ministry for Youth and the Sports. It can be required in the urines of the sportsmen in order to detect possible a mésusage.

Interactions of ALLERGIC drug ACTIFEDDUO RHINITIS with other substances
This drug should not be associated with the antidepressants of the nonselective type IMAO (MARSILID…), with another relieving congestion vasoconstrictor or a vasoconstrictor used in the Parkinson’s disease (bromocriptine, pergolide, lisuride, cabergoline) or in the migraine (ergotamine, dihydroergotamine). Association with these drugs is likely to cause a hypertensive crisis.

Pregnancy and breast feeding
Pregnancy:
Because of the presence of pseudoéphédrine, the use of this drug is disadvised in the expectant mother.

Breast feeding:
This drug passes in the mother’s milk. It is contra-indicated during breast feeding.

Directions for use and posology of ALLERGIC drug ACTIFEDDUO RHINITIS
The tablets must be swallowed with water glass, without being crunched, with the course or apart from the meals.

Usual posology:
Adult: 1 compressed, 2 times per day.

The duration of the treatment is limited to 5 days without medical opinion.

The Councils
This drug acts on the manifestations of the allergy but the cause does not remove any. If the symptoms persist or worsen, consult your doctor.

Possible undesirable effects of ALLERGIC drug ACTIFEDDUO RHINITIS
Bound to the pseudoéphédrine: dryness of the mouth, nauseas, vomiting, palpitations, tachycardia, headaches, anxiety, insomnia, sweats, urinary retention.

Bound to the cétirizine: digestive disorders, stops dries, giddinesses, somnolence.

Laboratory Mc Neil Health General public
LEXICON
cerebral vascular accident
Lesion of the brain due to a hemorrhage or the brutal obstruction of an artery. According to the importance of the lesion, the consequences are more or less serious: temporary malaise, paralysis, coma.

Abbreviation: AVC.

adenoma of the prostate
Increase in the volume of the prostate, gland located under the bladder of the man. This increase in volume is benign, does not have any relationship with a cancer, but can obstruct the passage of the urines in the channel (urethra) which crosses gland.

The symptoms which make evoke the presence of an adenoma of the prostate are:
a difficulty of urinating (slowness, weakness of the jet);

the need to rise several times the night to urinate;

desires for urinating pressing and difficult to control.

Certain drugs, the atropiniques ones in particular, can have as an undesirable effect worsening the embarrassment and can lead to a total blocking of the evacuation of the bladder. They are thus contra-indicated or must be used prudently at the men presenting the symptoms described above.

allergy
Cutaneous reaction (itchings, buttons, swelling) or Malayan general appearing after a contact with a particular substance, the use of a drug or the ingestion of a food. The principal forms of allergy are eczema, urticaria, asthma, the edema of Quincke and the allergic shock (shock anaphylactic). The food allergy can also result in digestive disorders.

antecedent
Affection cured or always in evolution. The antecedent can be personal or family. The antecedents constitute the history of the health of a person.

antidepressant
Drug which acts against the depression. Certain antidepressants are also used to fight the obsessional disorders compulsifs, the generalized anxiety, certain rebellious pains, the enuresis, etc

According to their mode of action and their undesirable effects, the antidepressants are divided into various families: the antidepressants imipraminic, the inhibiters of recaptures serotonin, the IMAO (selective or not selective). Lastly, other antidepressants do not belong to any of these families, because they have original properties.

The mode of action of the antidepressants comprises two principal aspects: relief of mental anguish and the fight against the inhibition which removes any will of action with depressed. It happens that a shift occurs between these two effects: mental anguish can persist, whereas the capacity of action reappears. For this short period, the suicidal risk present at some depressed can be increased. The doctor holds of it account in his regulation (possible association with one tranquillizing) and this one must be imperatively respected.

antihistamine
Drug which is opposed to the various effects of histamine. Two principal types exist: antihistamines of the H1 type (antiallergic) and antihistamines of the type H2 (antiulcéreux gastric). Certain antihistamines of the H1 type are sedative, others do not deteriorate vigilance.

convulsions
Involuntary contractions limited to some muscles or generalized with all the body. They are due to a suffering or an excessive stimulation of the brain: fever, intoxication, lack of oxygen, lesion of the brain. The convulsions can be due to an epileptic fit or a fever raised in the young child.

diabetes
General term indicating the diseases resulting by the emission of abundant urines and an intense thirst. Employee alone, the word diabetes generally relates to the sweetened diabetes, which corresponds to a disturbance of the regulation of sugars of the organization by insulin. He results by the increase in sugar (glucose) in blood and in his possible presence in the urines. There exist two kinds of sweetened diabetes: diabetes of the type 1, or insulinodépendant, which requires a treatment by insulin in injection, and diabetes of the type 2, or not insulinodépendant, which can, initially, being treated by antidiabetic the oral examinations.

glaucome
Disease characterized by the increase in the pressure of the liquids contained in the eye (hypertension intraoculaire).

This general term recovers two completely different affections:
The glaucome with open angle or glaucome chronic is most frequent; it without symptoms, is generally detected by the measurement of the tension intraoculaire in the ophthalmologist. It does not cause an acute crisis, and the treatment rests primarily on eye lotions beat-blockings. The people reached of a glaucome with open angle should not use derivatives of cortisone without preliminary ophthalmologic opinion.

The glaucome with angle closed or glaucome acute is rarer. Between the crises, the tension intraoculaire is normal. But the inopportune use of drugs atropinic (in particular in eye lotion) causes an acute crisis of hypertension intraoculaire which can definitively damage the retina in a few hours. It is an ophthalmologic urgency which is recognized in an eye brutally red, awfully painful, hard like a ball of glass, and whose vision becomes fuzzy.

The angle of which it is question in these two affections is the irido-corneal angle. It is indeed between the iris and the cornea that the system of evacuation of the liquids of the eye is. A not very open angle (closed) exposes to a total obstruction of the system of evacuation. This obstruction can occur when the iris is opened to the maximum (mydriase) under the effect of a drug atropinic: the iris then comes to be joined with the cornea.

The atropinic counter-indications of the drugs concern only the people having already made crises of glaucome with closed angle, or at which an ophthalmologist detected this risk. Those which suffer from a chronic glaucome with open angle are not concerned with these counter-indications.

arterial hypertension
Excess of pressure (tension) of blood in the arteries. This pressure is ensured by the heart and is expressed by two digits. It is maximum at the time of the contraction of the heart, or systole (first figure), and minimal at the time of the cardiac rest, or diastole (second figure). An arterial hypertension is characterized by a maximum pressure (systolic) higher or equalizes to 16, or a minimal pressure (diastolic) higher or equalizes to 9,5. A treatment is founded when these figures are exceeded or for weaker tensions at certain people presenting of the risk factors cardiovascular: heredity, nicotinism, diabetes, excess of cholesterol. Permanent a antihypertensor treatment makes it possible to limit the damage of the heart and the blood-vessels due to arterial hypertension.

hyperthyroïdie
Excess of thyroid hormones resulting in particular in an acceleration of the heart, a bad tolerance with heat, a slimming and a chronic tiredness.

IMAO
Abbreviation of inhibiter of the mono-amine-oxydase. Family of drugs used in psychiatry and neurology (depression, Parkinson’s disease). These drugs are divided into two types: the nonselective IMAO, which are incompatible with many drugs and even certain food, and the selective IMAO (have or B), for which these disadvantages absent or are limited.

coronary insufficiency
Disablement partial of the arteries of the heart (coronary arteries) to irrigate the cardiac muscle. Crises of angina pectoris can occur, generally at the time of an effort.

impaired renal function
Incapacity of the kidneys to eliminate waste or the medicamentous substances. A advanced impaired renal function does not result inevitably in a reduction in the quantity of eliminated urine. Only a blood test and the proportioning of creatinin can reveal this disease.

prolonged release
Manufactoring process of a drug, which allows a slow and progressive release active substances in the organization.

Abbreviation: LP.

palpitations
Abnormal perception of irregular cardiac beats.

posology
Quantity and distribution of the amount of a drug according to the age, of the weight and the general state of the patient.

rhinitis
Ignition or infection of the nose and the nasal fossae. The rhinitis can have an infectious origin (bacterium or virus) or an allergic origin. The allergic rhinitides gather the seasonal rhinitides (hay cold) and the rhinitides called perannuelles, i.e. often persistent during the year (due for example to the acarina, the hairs of animals or chemical agents).

sedative
Who alleviates, who calms.

Drug pertaining to various families: anxiolytic, hypnotic, antalgic, cough mixtures, antiepileptic, nerve sedatives, etc but also antidepressants, H1 antihistamines, antihypertenseurs. A sedative can be responsible for somnolence and increase the effects of alcohol.

symptom
Disorder felt by a person reached of a disease. The same symptom can translate different diseases and the same disease inevitably does not give the same symptoms among all patients.

tachycardia
Acceleration of the rate/rhythm of the beats of the heart. It can be due to a fever, a hyperthyroïdie, a cardiac disease, the action of certain drugs, etc

symptomatic treatment
Treatment which removes or attenuates the symptoms of a disease without attacking its cause.

vasoconstrictor
Drug which causes a contraction of the blood-vessels, in opposition to vasodilator.

giddiness
Symptom which can indicate an impression of loss of balance (common direction) or, more strictly, a feeling of rotation on oneself or the environment (medical direction).