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Show SEEYOUR- i DOCTOR? Allergy Relief If you are one of the one-in-six Americans who suffer from seasonal allergic rhinitis the runny nose, sneezing, tearing and itching eyes of short-term allergies such as hay fever -you may have more reason than ever to see your doctor. Doctors can now prescribe a new antihistamine that ia made to avoid the drowsiness, mental dulling or sleepiness associated with older antihistamines. antihis-tamines. In tests, patients were about as likely to feel sleepy on a placebo as on the antihistamine. antihis-tamine. Called terfenadine, the new product is made by Merrell Dow and sells under the name Seldane. According to the Food and Drug Administration, Admin-istration, other currently available antihistamines apparently ap-parently cause sedation by affecting af-fecting the central nervous system. The new drug, however, how-ever, hardly seems to penetrate pene-trate that system at all so the sleepy feeling is not produced. |