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Doc says take 10mg cetirizine hydrochloride for 2 weeks so that my hives will stop. been a week now with no improvement? takes a while to work??

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Dr. Stephen Southard answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Hives: Antihistamine therapy should work fairly quickly. You should review this with your physician as it appears from your medications provided that your are on dual antihistamine therapy(cetirizine and ranitidine). Best of luck.

Answered 9/29/2016

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