Antihistamine medications may provide relief from allergic reactions. Learn more about antihistamines.
Allegra Antihistamine:
Formerly available by prescription only, Allegra is now available over the counters. >> Read more about Allegra.
Tylenol Allergy:
Tylenol Allergy combines the powerful pain relief of Tylenol with potent allergy medications. >> Read more about Tylenol Allergy.
Benadryl Allergy:
Benadryl Allergy contains diphenhydramine, which is a first generation antihistamine.
>> Read more about Benadryl Allergy.
Natural Antihistamine Supplements:
Natural antihistamine supplements can help you control your allergies. >> Read about antihistamine supplements.
Natural Antihistamine Foods:
Many vitamins found in naturally occurring foods contain antihistamine properties. >> Read about antihistamine foods.
Natural Antihistamine Herbs:
Antihistamine herbs fight off histamine and stop the allergic reaction. >> Read more about antihistamine herbs.
>> About Natural Antihistamines
Discussing the history of the antihistamine, its creation and origins, must begin with the histamine. What happens is that histamine is released when someone has a genetically induced allergic reaction. Henry Dale and Patrick Laidlaw discovered histamine in 1910.
An antihistamine combats the allergy-producing histamines. Allergens release large amounts of histamines – distributed on the cellular level – that cause inflammatory responses such as runny noses and eyes, nausea and sleep disorders and even stomach ulcers.
Antihistamines were first used successfully to treat people in 1942. Bernard Halpern introduced the first product, antergan. It was revised in 1944, and then introduced in the United States in 1946 as diphenhydramine and tripellinamine. Antihistamines became all the rage by 1950 as the first classes of antihistamines were introduced, including ethylenediamine, ethanolamines, alkylamines, piperazine, tricyclics.