Medication List
Know Your Medications and Check with Your Provider
Some medications can interfere with the results of your skin testing and must be stopped days before your appointment testing can be effectively performed. Please read below the list of medications to stop before your appointment. Also, please check with your doctor, or with one of our clinic staff members, if you have concerns about stopping your medications for the desired period of time. If you find your symptoms make it very difficult to discontinue your antihistamine medications, please keep your appointment, but notify our staff that you are currently taking an antihistamine.
Antihistamines
Stop these medications 5 days before your appointment:
- Allegra (fexofenadine)
- Zyrtec (cetirizine)
- Atarax, Vistaril (hydroxyzine)
- Xyzal (levocetirizine)
Stop these for 3 days before your appointment:
- Actifed, Dimetapp (brompheniramine)
- Clarinex (desloratadine)
- Astelin (azelastine)
- Periactin (cyproheptadine HC)
- Benadryl (diphenhydramine)
- Phenergan (promethazine)
- Chlortrimetron (chlorpheniramine)
- Tavist, Antihist (clemastine)
- Claritin (loratadine)
- Triaminic (chlorpheniramine)
Combination of cough and cold medications
Stop these for 3 days before your appointment:
- Contac
- Sine-Aid
- Dimetane
- Sinutab
- Dimetapp
- Sinutin
- Dristan
- Tanafed DMX
- Drixoral
- Vicks Children's Nyquil
- NyQuil
- Vicks Multi-Symptom/Pediatric Cold & Cough
- Robitussin Pediatric Night Relief
Anti-nausea and Anti-vertigo medications
Stop 3 days before your appointment:
- Antivert, Bonine, DizmissR (medclizine)
- Bucdin-5 (bucitizine)
- Compazine (prochlorperazine)
- Dymenate
- Emete-Con (benzquinamide)
- Marezine (cyclizine)
- Marmine, Dramamine (dimenhydrinate)
- Tigan (trimethobenzamide)
Over the counter sleep aids
Stop these 3 days before your appointment:
- Nytol
- Tylenol PM
- Quita
- Twilite
- Sominex
- Unisom
Tricyclic or Tetracyclic antidepressants
Stop these 2 weeks before your appointment, but only after notifying your prescribing physician
- Adepin (doxepin)
- Anafranil (chominpramine)
- Asendin (amoxapine)
- Aventyl (nortriptyline)
- Desyrel (trazodone)
- Endep (amitriptyline)
- Elavil (amitriptyline)
- Ludiomil (maprodine)
- Norpramin (desipramine)
- Pemlor
- Remeron (mirtazapine)
- Sinequan (doxepin)
- Surmontil (trimipramine)
- Tofranil (imipramine)
- Trabcioak (chlormezanone)
- Vivactil (protriptyline)
Allergy/Asthma medications
Stop these the night before your appointment:
- Singulair (montelukast)
- Zyflo (zileuton)
Antacid medications
Do not take these the morning of your appointment:
- Axid (nizatidine)
- Zantac (ranitidine)
- Pepcid (famotidine)
- Tagamet (cimetidine)