What kind of medications are used to treat allergies?

What kind of medications are used to treat allergies?

Harold Kaiser (Practicing Allergist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School) gives expert video advice on: What kind of medications are used to treat allergies?; Does using an EpiPen hurt? and more...

Depends on the allergy. For example, lets talk about allergic rhynitis or hay fever, which is perhaps the most common allergic condition that the physicians sees. Anti-histamines are used, decongestants are used, inhaled nasal corticosteroid type medications are used to treat the allergy. There are other medications called look and try modifiers, which are chemical blockers for some of the chemicals that contribute to the allergic disease. There are drying agents for those patients who have excess mucus production and a whole bunch of combination of those. So there are different ways to treat allergies.