Zyrtec Vaginal Irritation, Sleeplessness, Stutter, Stuttering, Gyn

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my then 2 year old daughter began to take Zyrtec in sept 06 for allergies. she began to STUTTER in November 06. she has gotten worse over time. she also has experienced vaginal irritation for about the same amount of time
( 1 1/2 years) i have had her tested by a gyn and everything came back normal. her stuttering got worse when the doctor upped her dose. so bad that she can not complete a sentence. i took her off of it 1 week ago and we have seen mild improvement and Withdrawal (crying,itching,sleeplessness) has anyone else experienced this? please help us!

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Sdtorres - My 3 year old son has taken Zyrtec as needed for seasonal allegies. This summer his allegies seemed to be pretty bad so he was taking it for about 2 months straight. One day i noticed that he stuttered and then it kept getting worse and worse. He had never done it before. I am a teacher so I sought out any help my district would offer. I took him to a speech pathologist and she recommend therpy right away. As his allegies got better I did not give it to him every day. I noticed that on the days that I did give it to him he could not get a sentence out. Other days he was fine. I stopped giving it to him a week ago and his speech is almost regular. Our therpist is shocked and amazed. Aparently no one really knows the side effects/ or parents are not being informed.

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Slp - I am a Speech Language Pathologist for children 3-5 years old. I have a student with sudden onset of extreme stuttering. I tried all appropriate therapeutic methods to help him but nothing was working. I met with the parents and they reported use of Zyrtec around the onset of stuttering. They took him off the Zyrtec and the stuttering was GONE - completely GONE. I was shocked and thrilled!! I have been trying to find any information regarding a link between stuttering and Zyrtec. I found 4 parent reports of this connection but no research or documentation of this side effect.

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Parv1 - This is really interesting to me. I am a middle aged male and have had the same experience with stuttering on Zyrtec. It also happens when I take Benadryl and any antihistamine that sedates me even mildly. I’ve searched online for it but there’s only anecdotal reports. One thing I do wonder about is if it has something to do with binding of the drug to H1 receptors in the CNS, which is much higher with Zyrtec vs Allegra.

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