• What is Ketotifen?

Ketotifen is a fairly new pharmaceutical drug that was developed a little less than 50 years ago. It is derived from another complex chemical compound, C8H6S, and is used to treat allergies and asthma as an antihistamine. It counteracts the natural histamines in the body that cause reactions such as a runny nose, sneezing, congestion, itching, and other allergy-related traits by stabilizing the mast cell – a wandering cell that contains histamine saturated molecules. In short, Ketotifen is an antiallergic drug is used for treating a variety of conditions including:

  • cholinergic urticaria
  • exercise-induced urticaria
  • mastocytosis
  • mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS)
  • food allergy
  • asthma
  • allergic rhinitis
  • allergic conjunctivitis
  • atopic dermatitis
  • chronic urticaria
  • cold-induced urticaria

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