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- noun An
antihistamine drug formerly used to treatallergic conditions,superseded byfexofenadine in the 1990s due to the risk ofcardiac arrhythmia .
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Stop adding antifungal medications sporanox nizoral and appear your terbinafine at slowly if you have runny or being terfenadine pain, or if you eliminate light-headed.
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Furthermore, experts argue that if the health ministry could in the past ban painkiller rofecoxib, diabetes drug phenformin, and anti-allergy drugs astemizole and terfenadine due to adverse effects based on global reports, why can't the same logic be applied in case of other drugs which have been banned globally?
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In drug-interaction studies, the recommended clinical dose of montelukast did not have clinically important effects on the pharmacokinetics of the following drugs: theophylline, prednisone, prednisolone, oral contraceptives (norethindrone 1 mg / ethinyl estradiol 35 mcg), terfenadine, digoxin, and warfarin.
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Recognition and reporting of this arrhythmia in association with terfenadine, astemizole (Hismanal), cisapride (Propulsid), grepafloxacin (Raxar), and mibefradil (Posicor) ultimately led to the removal of these medications from the market.
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did not change the plasma concentration profile of terfenadine (a substrate of CYP 3A4) or fexofenadine, its carboxylated metabolite, and did not prolong the QTc interval following co-administration with terfenadine 60 mg twice daily.
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