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doxylamine

 [dok″sil-am´ēn]
an antihistamine with sedative and anticholinergic effects; used as the succinate salt in the treatment of nasal, eye, and skin manifestations of allergic reactions, including allergic rhinitis, conjunctivitis, and itching, as an ingredient in cough and cold preparations, and in the short-term treatment of insomnia, administered orally.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
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consider the popular diphenhydramine and doxylamine as ingredients for sleep aids.
Dimenhydrinate, Meclizine, and Doxylamine. Dimenhydrinate, meclizine and doxylamine are antihistamines from the group of [H.sub.1] blockers.
(d) Diphenhydramine, doxylamine, dexchlorpheniramine, chlorpheniramine, promethazine, desloratadine, cyproheptadine, loratadine, fexofenadine, hydroxyzine, pheniramine, dimetindene.
There are two in this category, diphenhydramine (such as Benadryl), and doxylamine (Unisom Nighttime Sleep Aid).
The drug is a combination of the antihistamine doxylamine and vitamin [B.sub.6].
Antihistamines such as Diphenhydramine and Doxylamine are also sedative.
Contains (per tablet): 450mg paracetamol, 10mg codeine phosphate, 5mg doxylamine succinate, 30mg caffeine
Originally, Bendectin consisted of dicyclomine hydrochloride to stop or prevent spasms, doxylamine succinate, which was the antihistamine, and pyridoxine, also known as Vitamin B6.
In the 1970s, a lot of that litigation centered around the morning sickness drug Bendectin--originally formulated with doxylamine succinate, pyridoxine HCl, and dicyclomine HC1, and later reformulated without the dicyclomine.
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