Taking too much betahistine can make you feel sick or sleepy, or give you stomach ache.
Common side effects include headache, feeling sick or indigestion. They're usually mild and do not last long. It's best to take your tablets with or after food. This way it's less likely to upset your stomach.
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Antihistamines, e.g. betahistine and cinnarizine. These are sedative, and patients should not operate machinery or drink alcohol.
This medicine may cause dizziness, and tiredness in some people. If you have any of these symptoms, do not drive, operate machinery or do anything else that could be dangerous.
SERC contains the active ingredient betahistine dihydrochloride. SERC is used to treat a disorder of your inner ear. This disorder may include one or more of the following symptoms, in one or both ears: ringing in the ears (tinnitus), loss of clear hearing and problems with balance (vertigo).
Meclizine may be used to treat vertigo or nausea and vomiting associated with motion sickness; however, it takes approximately an hour to start working and may cause drowsiness, although it is less likely than some other antihistamines to cause drowsiness.
Take betahistine at the same times each day. It is best taken with or after food, to prevent stomach upset.
During this post-marketing observational study, betahistine (48 mg/day) was found to be effective for the treatment of vestibular vertigo. Betahistine treatment for up to 60 days was associated with significant reductions in vertigo severity (p < 0.001), as assessed by changes in SVVSLCRE level.
Some medicines and betahistine affect each other and can increase your chance of side effects. Tell your pharmacist or doctor if you're taking: medicines called MAO inhibitors, used to treat depression or Parkinson's disease. antihistamines for allergies such as hay fever.
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur: signs of a serious allergic reaction (e.g., swelling of face or throat, hives, or difficulty breathing)
Betahistine is not approved in the United States. Interestingly, it was approved in the U.S. in the 1960s but after 5 years the approval was withdrawn due to a lack of evidence for its efficacy.
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The repeated-measures ANOVA showed a significant effect of time (P<0.00001), indicating that both high-dose and low-dose betahistine could significantly reduce the HARS score.
Asthma: This medication may make the symptoms of breathing problems worse.
If you stop taking Betahistine
Keep taking your tablets until your doctor tells you to stop. Even when you start feeling better, your doctor may want you to carry on taking the tablets for some time to make sure that the medicine has worked completely.
Few studies had compared the effect of betahistine and metformin before. According to our study, although betahistine group failed to decrease the body weight significantly, it prevented further weight gain with a decreasing tendency.
Vertigo has many different causes, and the treatments for it often do not work well. A previous Cochrane review found that betahistine reduced vertigo in people with one cause of vertigo (Meniere's disease).
This medication may irritate the stomach, and should be taken with food. It is best to avoid coffee, spicy food or alcohol.
Increases in vestibular blood flow and decreases in blood pressure were observed in response to betahistine infusions.
That's why sleep is vital to recovery. No matter what you're battling, without quality and consistent sleep, your body will not respond as well to treatment. This holds especially true for those recovering from balance disorders, vertigo attacks, and lingering dizziness.
Over time, ear crystals may dissolve, but bear in mind that this could take weeks or longer, and during that time, a person would have to endure the extreme discomfort of BPPV, where even the slightest head movements would throw their world into disarray.
This is true even for people with vestibular disorders that cause episodes of severe vertigo, such as Meniere's Disease and vestibular migraine. Many people with such disorders find themselves more prone to fatigue even between episodes because their vestibular systems don't fully recalibrate between episodes.
Betahistine is the analogue of histamine with weaker agonistic effect on histamine H1 receptors and stronger effect on histamine H3 receptors, while Cinnarizine has more effective effect on H1 receptors.
Betahistine comes as 8mg or 16mg tablets. The usual starting dose is 16mg, taken 3 times a day. Leave 6 to 8 hours between doses. When your symptoms are under control, your doctor may reduce your dose to 8mg, taken 3 times a day.
Betaserc used in treatment of balance system disorders lessens the insensitivity of vertigo, gait disturbances and nausea/vomiting. It does not affect hearing loss or tinnitus.