ZYRTEC Reviews (CETIRIZINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.0 (1820 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ZYRTEC with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZYRTEC | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | allergies to pets and pollen | I started giving my 4 year old son zyrtec 2-3 weeks ago and within a day or so he started refusing to eat and saying his stomach hurt every day. He has also been very clingy, saying weird things all the time. He has been very tired and always seems sleep deprived. I can't believe how many complaints I have found online about this drug and its effect on children's behavior. I will never give him zyrtec again. | F | 33 | 14 days | 3/11/2009 | 1 | seasonal allergies | defiant behavior | My child had been taking Zyrtec for 3 years. It was a fluke that we discovered her behavior was related to her taking zyrtec. We had run out and skipped a couple of days. Over the last year, we had been having problems with her at school/home with defiant/violent behavior. She's such a sweet child. Most of the time she didn't know why she was doing what she was doing. She began to tell us she hated herself because she couldn't "be good". It broke out hearts. We had been taking her to a counselor and were getting her screened for ADHD. Don't give this drug to your children! My beautiful little girl is back to being her sweet self. Is anyone suing???? I can't believe something isn't being done. My poor baby suffered for 3 years!!! | F | 5 | 3 years | 3/10/2009 | 1 | Seasonal Allergies | Zyrtec caused my 12 year old son to be tired, drowsy, and drugged out and it didn't work very well. | For years I have been giving my 12 year old son lots of different allergy drugs, including Claritin, Tylenol, Zyrtec and others. None of them really worked and they all made him very tired and drugged out. Recently, I saw Dr Hansen on our morning news show here in Arizona as he was talking about a natural allergy product named Flavinox and explaining how it works and it really made sense to me. I drove over to his Scottsdale office that morning to get a bottle and went directly to my sons school to start him on the capsules. When he came home from school about 3 hours later he was like a different person than when he left that morning. I could see it in his face and eyes. He was feeling 100% better and he told me about an hour after he took the capsule he could feel the difference and he kept feeling better as the day went on. Since then I have been giving him about 3 capsules a day and he's a baseball player so sometimes before a game I give him an extra one and I am truly amazed a | M | 12 | 1 years | 3/7/2009 | 1 | indoor allergies | I'm so thankful for finding this web site. Our 3.5 year old son has been a different child while taking this medication. I came here today in the off chance that the liquid form of zyrtec might be responsible...... I am relieved and sad to know so many other children have had the same side affects. He is very angry, won't eat, disrespectful and sleeps fitfully. He is off this stuff today! | M | 3.5 | 3 months | 3/6/2009 | 1 | Allergies | Daughter was angry all the time, moody, flash temper, no patience for anything. | My daughter started Zyrtec when she was about 13, she became terribly angry at everyone and everything. We blamed it on hormones, peer pressure, etc. etc. She is now 15 and we just heard about theses problems with Zyrtec 8 days ago and you would not believe the change. I have my sweet daughter back! Not that there still aren't typical teenage drama etc. but she had become down right mean and nasty. I wouldn't let anyone take this medicine. | F | 15 | 2 years | 3/5/2009 | 4 | Severe allergies | Facial and body tics | My 10 year old son had been taking Zyrtec for the better part of 5 years. He developed intermittent facial and body tics. If we were ever late on picking up his refill for Zyrtec, his tics would stop. Upon restarting the medication the tics would reappear. Although this medication worked wonderfully for his allergies, I don't think it's worth any risks. | M | 10 | 5 years | 3/3/2009 | 2 | seasonal allergies | My 5-year-old developed an extremely volatile mood tending toward tearfulness, depression, erratic sleep patterns. This occurred on the day I started giving him Children's Zyrtec and ended the day after he ceased to take it. | M | 5 | 5 days | 3/3/2009 | 1 | Allergies | My 7 year old daughter took this for 1 1/2 weeks. I am sorry that I ever put her on it. She is a sweet, loving child who behaves very well. She turned into a demon child. She lost her apetite and would not eat anything at all. She complained about stomach aches and dry throat. She was afraid to eat or drink because she said her throat felt as if it would close up. | This product should be taken off of the market immediately. I spoke to several moms tonight at a PTA meeting and they had the same complaints about their children. My daughter would scream at me and tell me that I dont understand her. She would wake up and just start yelling at me. My daughter wakes up sooo happy every day. She was not herself in anyway. I took her off of it 4 days ago... her apetite is back x 10 and my sweet, loving, caring child is back. It breaks my heart that I put her through that greif. Never again. | F | 7 | 10 days | 3/3/2009 | 1 | allergies, headaches | It was prescribed years ago by my ENT Doctor and I said I'd never take it again because it made me very drowsy... I did. I really made a bad mistake. In December 2008, it made me act worse than having had several drinks. My friends stayed away from me. Eventually, I passed out. It made sense if years before it made me drowsy, passing out seems like a logical step. | I dumped the pills. My perspective: DON'T TAKE IT. We're inundated with side-effects from drugs so we think, what the heck, they all have side-effects. BUT THIS IS WORSE THAN MANY. You can also forget what the FDA approves or doesn't and you know how effective governmental oversight has been for years. People taking the drug know best. | F | 54 | 3 days | 2/25/2009 | 4 | Allergies | Deep depression and muscle and joint pain. Could not walk without pain. Sleep disorder as well. Could not fall asleep and then waking up all through the night. | It helps with the allergies but the side effects are not worth it. | F | 53 | 40 days | 2/23/2009 | 3 | allergies | lethargic | F | 50 | 1 months | 2/20/2009 | 2 | Allergies | My daughter was put onto Zyrtec for allergies and she has uncontrollable crying and anxiety. | F | 9 | 30 days | 2/20/2009 | 1 | allergies | Bouts of uncontrollable crying and depression after 3 days of taking Zyrtec. | F | 38 | 3 days | 2/15/2009 | 5 | allergies | first few times I was nauseous and extremely tired but it was the only medicine that helped me last through the day without having an attack. In the past 3.5 years I have experienced weight gain, decreased libedo, tiredness after taking the pill (I take at night) but then wake up regularly during the night. | As I will be starting fertility treatments in a few weeks, I stopped with the medication 2 months ago. I had found some very positive reviews regarding a vitamin called 'Quercetin' on the internet and so, I began taking it (in combination with vitamin C). I started with taking 4-5 tablets a day (my allergies are extremely high and year round), a month ago, I was down to 1 a day and I am amazed!! I am 39 years old and have been taking allergy medication / shots / drops since I was 16 and this vitamin (it is found in the skin of apples and red onions) really works!! and without all the wierd side-effects of the other drugs.... I have become a HUGE fan! | F | 39 | 3.5 years | 2/11/2009 | 4 | allergies asthma | None | It works very well. The only better medication was Seldane which was taken off the market due to a very few people with serious side effects. | F | 65 | 9 years | 2/11/2009 | 1 | Allergies | Disproportionate anger, irrationality, rage, aggression, muscle and joint pain, back pain, fatigue upon waking. | My husband tried Zyrtec this past weekend for the first time. While his allergies cleared right up, he became someone I didn't even know. He is one of the most calm and collected people I have ever met, but he was enraged from the morning after his first dose onward. He could not focus, was fatigued even after a night's sleep, and was angrier than I have *ever* seen him over nothing at all. The worst part was how irrational he became. These are absolutely not characteristics my husband is known for. Last night (thankfully) he forgot to take the pills before bed and he's back to himself this evening. He says he feels like he missed the whole weekend in a fog. | M | 42 | 3 days | 2/9/2009 | 5 | Severe Allergies | None, I am an energetic morning person and I stay up until 11pm most nights and I sleep blissfully. I am not overweight and people tell me how wonderful my personality is. I surprised to see so many adverse reactions. | I have tried every drug out there. Zyrtec (Cetrizine Hydrocloride) works for me. I actually have to take 10mg every 12 hours (Doc recomended) and when Cedar Pollen is very high up to 3 doses (30mg total) spread over 24 hours. I never seem to have any of the possible advertised symptoms. | M | 41 | 4 years | 2/6/2009 | 1 | allergies | weight gain and inability to lose weight, palpitations, anxiety | i have taken zyrtec for around 5 years and it definately helped my allergies, but after reading these blogs i realized my symptoms were similar and decided to quit taking zyrtec. since i have stopped it i now am dealing with what i think is angioedema in my feet mainly and mildly in my hands face and arms. i am now off for 4 days, but at first i was still taking small doses every day or so. big mistake after i have read other peoples experiences. i believe this to be my body releasing histimines due to quitting zyrtec. i dont know how i am going to control my allergies now as i have a cat and dog, but this is a big red flag for me. no more zyrtec | F | 45 | 5 years | 2/1/2009 | 5 | Allergies | None for me. They told me that I'd possibly experience drowsiness, but I got no side-effects whatsoever. | I love this stuff. It works miraculously. I'm allergic to cats and I have six, so I pretty much have to take this every day, or whenever I feel an allergy attack coming on, and it just works so well. My only complaint is it being OTC now so it's MUCH more expensive, but I just get store-brand, and it works just as well. | F | 20 | 8 years | 1/31/2009 | 1 | Chronic nasal allergies | HAIR LOSS!!! Depression | I took zyrtec for about a year and a half. Two months after I started it I began sweeping piles of hair from the floor daily! I saw the doctor and he said my hair loss was probably genetic. Everyone in my family has beautiful thick hair. Even the men. I became severely depressed. Over a period of about 8 months I loss nearly half my hair volume. Dr never related it to zyrtec. I reviewed the Physicians Desk Reference and discovered that alopecia is a side effect of this medication. Please! please check it out on drugs.com. I have been off zyrtec for 5 weeks and already have hair regrowth. | F | 32 | 1.5 years | 1/29/2009 |