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Welcome to Fairview Lakes Allergy and Asthma Clinic Welcome to Fairview Lakes Allergy and Asthma Clinic Thank you for choosing Fairview Lakes Medical How should I get ready for this visit? Center for your allergy and asthma care. Please bring: What should I expect at the clinic? • All medicines that you take At your first visit, we will ask about your medical • Records of any allergy care you’ve had in the past. history, symptoms and allergy triggers. We will do an exam and tests to learn the cause of your Please read the medicine list on the back of this page. symptoms. We will then find the treatment that best If you take any of these medicines, you should stop meets your needs. taking them before your clinic visit. This will ensure clear results for your skin tests. What is allergy skin testing? If you have concerns about stopping your medicines, call your doctor or our clinic staff. Your doctor may order skin tests to find out what triggers your symptoms. Skin testing takes about 15 to 20 minutes. We will place a small amount of protein under your skin. This involves one or more gentle pricks with a tiny needle. If you are allergic to the protein, your skin will react by turning red around the protein. Your doctor will review your results after the tests. You may have skin testing during your visit. If so, your visit will take about 90 minutes. continued Fairview Lakes Allergy & Asthma Clinic Fairview Lakes Medical Center Fairview Lino Lakes Clinic 5200 Fairview Blvd. 7455 Village Dr. Wyoming, MN 55092 Lino Lakes, MN 55014 Tel. 651-982-7600, option 2 Tel. 651-717-3400 If you are deaf or hard of hearing, please let us know. We provide many free services including sign language interpreters, oral interpreters, TTYs, telephone amplifiers, note takers and written materials. For informational purposes only. Not to replace the advice of your health care provider. Copyright © 2008 Fairview Health Services. All rights reserved. SMARTworks 520___ – 10/08. Stop these 2 weeks before your visit Stop these 3 days before your visit (continued) (but talk to your doctor first) Anti-nausea and anti-vertigo medicines: Anti-depressants (tricyclic or tetracyclic): • Antivert, Bonine, • Marmine or • Adapin (doxepin) • Nopramin Dizmiss (meclizine) Dramamine (dimenhydrinate) • Anafranil (clomipramine (desipramine) • Emete-Con HCL) • Pamelor (benzquinamide) • Dymenate (dymenhydrinate) • Asendin (amoxapine) • Remeron • Marezine (cyclizine) • Tigan • Aventyl (nortriptyline) (mirtazapine) • Compazine (prochlorperazine) (trimethobenzamide) • Desyrel (trazodone) • Sinequan (doxepin) • Endep (amitriptyline) • Surmontil (trimipramine) Cough and cold medicines: • Elavil (amitriptyline) • Tofranil (imipramine) • Contac • Robitussin Pediatric • Ludiomil • Dimetane Night Relief (maprotiline HCL) • Vivactil (protriptyline) • Dimetapp • Sine-Aid • Dristan • Sinutab Stop these 5 days before your visit: • Drixoral • Sinutin • Tanafed DMX Antihistamines: • NyQuil or Children’s NyQuil • Vicks 44 Custom • Allegra (fexofenadine) • Xyzal (levocetirizine) • Pediatric Vicks 44m Care Cough/Cold • Atarax, Vistaril • Zyrtec (cetirizine) Cough/Cold (hydroxyzine) Over-the-counter sleep aids: Stop these 3 days before your visit • Nytol • Twilite Anti-histamines: • Quita • Tylenol PM • Actifed, Dimetapp • Claritin (loratadine) • Sominex • Unisom (brompheniramine) • Periactin (cyprohep- • Astelin (azelastine) tadine HCL) Stop these the night before your visit • Benadryl • Phenergan Allergy and asthma medicines: (diphenhydramine) (promethazine) • Singulair • Zyflo (zileuton) • Chlortrimetron • Tavist, Antihist (montelukast) (chlorpheniramine) (clemastine) • Clarinex (desloratadine) • Triaminic (chlorpheniramine) Do not take these the morning of your visit Antacids: • Axid (nizatidine) • Tagamet (cimetidine) • Pepcid (famotidine) • Zantac (ranitidine).
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