Meaning

1 senses
  1. A drug that counteracts the effects of a histamine. Commonly used to alleviate the symptoms of hay fever and other allergies.

    Antihistaminikum

    антигистами́нantigistamín

    a medicine used to treat allergies and hypersensitive reactions and colds; works by counteracting the effects of histamine on a receptor site

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Would you like an antihistamine?

  2. I take antihistamines and get drowsy.

  3. Cat allergy sufferers usually rely on antihistamines, which have side effects such as drowsiness.

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  4. I have to take antihistamines every day as advised by my Doctor.

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  5. The doctor examined Miroslav's foot and prescribed an antihistamine to alleviate the swelling caused by the centipede bite.

Translations

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