Diagnostic and Treatment Center 33 Overlook Road, Suite # 307, Summit, NJ 07901 Tel . (908) 522-9696/Fax: (908) 522-3070 www.dkb-allergy.com

Patient Instructions for New Patients/Skin Testing

Your appointment is on: _____/_____ /20____, at ______AM / PM.

Three days or 72 hours before your testing Contain appointment please stop taking the following : () Allegra () • Antihistamines, see list below Antivert or Bonine () • / Astelin (dispensed as a Nose Spray) combination medications, see list below Atarax () • Astelin, a prescription nasal spray () antihistamine Bromfed (Brompheneramine) • Any over the counter allergy Chlortrimeton (Chlorpheniramine , cold & cough remedies Claritin (Loratidine) • Any over the counter aids, they Clarinex usually contain a sedating antihistamine Dramamine () Vitamin C. If you are taking 1000 mg or more: PBZ (Tripelenamine) large doses act as a natural antihistamine Periactin (Cyproheptadin) Phenergan () Please review these medications. If you are not Polyhistine () certain if you are taking a Semprex () product that contains an antihistamine, ask Tavist () your pharmacist or call this office. Unisom () Zyrtec () You should continue to take, as prescribed, the Decongestant/Antihistamine combinations following medications: Allegra D • Antibiotics Claritin D • All asthma medications Naldecon • Prescription nose sprays, with the Polyhistine D exception of Astelin, which is an Rynatan antihistamine Tavist D that are not combined with an Trinalin Repetabs antihistamine Zyrtec D

Please dress accordingly: the 1st phase of testing Most over the counter cold, cough, headache (prick tests) are done on the forearm and the 2nd medications phase of testing (intradermal tests) are done on the upper arms.

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