What cold and or allergy meds are save to take with anxiety disorder with panic !


Question: What cold and or allergy meds are save to take with anxiety disorder with panic attacks!?
My husband has recently been diagnosed with gen!. anxiety disorder with panic attacks and there is a tobacco barn in our small town which is irritating his allergies he took the cough med!. Delsym and it aggravated his anxiety!. Help what can he take!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


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I usually take claratin and it doesn't react with my anxiety medication!. However, everyone is different!. The best thing to do is to talk to your dr before trying another medication!. Especially if he is on prescription drugs, the worst thing to do it have them comflict!. Www@Answer-Health@Com

Negative emotions (like sadness, stress, anger, etc!.) causes your Serotonin production to be low; when your Serotonin level is low, you are more prone to getting Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Depression, etc!.

Medication like Antidepressants (SSRI - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) helps to boost Serotonin level!.
But there are natural ways to do it without medication!. There's this strange herb called "St John's Wort" - it is said to be more effective than Prozac!. No, it is not for mild depression only and ignore those sayings!. In fact, it does help anxiety and panic-attacks as St John's Wort works like prozac!. Other natural ways will be exercise, diet, more exposure to light, etc!.

The problem is that, even if your Serotonin is balanced!.!.!. you have that "learned behavior" in your mind!. You need to break that initial cycle to destroy that learned behavior - Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) does this!. A technique that you can use without CBT will be Distraction!.!.!. There are several other techniques to help cope them!
Ok, to use Distraction: Firstly, try to!.!.!.!.

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The key is to make sure that you are not using something with phenylephrine or another stimulant (typically used to help dry up the stuffy nose)!. An antihistamine like Benadryl or one of the newer generation medications, like Claritin, Allegra or Zyrtec should be just fine with your medications!. If nasal stuffiness is a problem, you may want to talk to his doctor about a nasal steroid like rhinocort!. This should not worsen your husband's anxiety!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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