Description
This medicine is sold under the discretion of a Well Pharmacist.
You will be required to answer a few short questions to ensure this medicine is suitable for you.
Allevia Hives 180mg Tablets provide effective relief from itching, swelling, and redness caused by hives (urticaria). This antihistamine helps to block the effects of histamine, reducing allergic reactions and symptoms associated with hives. Just one tablet a day gets to work in just one hour and provides 24 hour relief for adults and children from 12 years.
View the Patient Information Leaflet
How to Use
Adults and adolescents aged 12 years and over:
- The recommended dose is one tablet (180mg) daily.
- Take the tablet with water before a meal.
- This medicine starts to relieve your symptoms within 1 hour and lasts for 24 hours.
If the symptoms of allergic skin reactions persist, or gets worse or other symptoms appear, you should stop the treatment and consult a doctor.
Warnings
Do not take Allevia Hives 180mg Tablets:
- If you are allergic to fexofenadine or any of the other ingredients in this medicine.
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking Allevia Hives 180mg Tablets if you:
- Have problems with your liver or kidneys.
- Have or ever had heart disease, as fexofenadine, like other antihistamines, may cause your heart to beat faster (tachycardia) or you feel your heart beating (palpitations).
- Are elderly.
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently take or might take any other medicines. This is especially important for the following medicines:
- Erythromycin (an antibiotic).
- Ketoconazole (a treatment for fungal infections).
If you are taking apalutamide (a medicine to treat prostate cancer), as the effect of fexofenadine may be decreased.
Indigestion remedies containing aluminium and magnesium may affect the action of Fexofenadine 180mg tablets, by lowering the amount of medicinal product absorbed. It is recommended that you leave about 2 hours between the time that you take Fexofenadine 180mg tablets and your indigestion remedy.
If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant or planning to have a baby, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking this medicine. Allevia Hives 180mg Tablets should not be taken during pregnancy and whilst breast-feeding unless advised by a doctor.
Allevia Hives 180mg Tablets are unlikely to affect your ability to drive or operate machinery. However, you should check that these tablets do not make you feel sleepy or dizzy before driving or operating machinery.
Allevia Hives 180mg Tablets contain less than 1 mmol sodium (23mg) per tablet, that is to say essentially 'sodium-free'.
Ingredients
- Active Ingredient: Fexofenadine hydrochloride 180mg.
- Other Ingredients: Tablet core: microcrystalline cellulose, pregelatinised maize starch, croscarmellose sodium, magnesium stearate. Film coating: hypromellose, povidone, titanium dioxide (E171), colloidal anhydrous silica, macrogol 400 and iron oxide (E172).
