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Answer From Mary Marnach, M.D.
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Allergy medications are sometimes recommended during pregnancy. However, before you take an allergy medication, consider ways to reduce your symptoms, including: Avoiding triggers.
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Limit your exposure to anything that triggers your allergy symptoms. Saline nasal spray. Saline nasal spray you can buy at a drug store can help ease symptoms.
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Use the spray as needed. Nasal irrigation.
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Once a day or as needed, fill a neti pot with a saline nasal solution or specially prepared water. Then tilt your head sideways over the sink and place the spout of the neti pot in your upper nostril. Breathing through your open mouth, pour in the liquid so it drains through your lower nostril.
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Repeat on the other side. Water should be distilled or sterile, previously boiled and cooled, or passed through a filter designed to trap potentially infectious organisms. Physical activity.
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Adhesive nasal strips can help keep your nasal passages open. Elevating the head of the bed. Raising the head of the bed by 30 to 45 degrees by placing objects, such as bricks, under the legs, might help ease symptoms.
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If you're considering taking an allergy medication, talk to your health care provider about the risks and benefits. To manage mild allergy symptoms, he or she might recommend an oral antihistamine such as loratadine (Claritin, Alavert) or cetirizine (Zyrtec Allergy). For moderate to severe symptoms, your health care provider might recommend a nonprescription corticosteroid spray at the lowest effective dose, in addition to an oral antihistamine.
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Options include budesonide nasal spray (Rhinocort Allergy) and fluticasone nasal spray (Flonase Allergy Relief). With Mary Marnach, M.D.
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Air travel during pregnancyAnkle swelling during pregnancy ShareTweet Dec. 04, 2021 Show references Schatz M. Recognition and management of allergic disease during pregnancy.
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https://www.uptodate.com/contents/search. Accessed Nov. 13, 2021.
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Is rinsing your sinuses with neti pots safe? Food and Drug Administration. https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm316375.htm.
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Accessed Jan. 9, 2018. Briggs GG, et al.
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Loratadine. In: Briggs Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal and Neonatal Risk. 12th ed.
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In: Briggs Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal and Neonatal Risk. 12th ed.
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Wolters Kluwer; 2022. See more Expert Answers
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