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Meclizine (generic Antivert)

  • What is meclizine?
    Meclizine (generic Antivert) is used to prevent and treat nausea, vomiting, and dizziness often caused by motion sickness. It can also be used to help prevent and treat the dizziness and lightheadedness caused by vertigo.

    Tired of feeling queasy every time you get in the car or on a plane? Talk to your doctor about whether meclizine could be right for your motion sickness.

  • What are common side effects of meclizine?
    While adverse reactions to Meclizine are uncommon, some patients who take the drug may experience mild side effects, including drowsiness, dry mouth, headache, fatigue, and vomiting.

    Rare, more serious adverse events have also been known to occur. If you are concerned that meclizine may be causing you to experience any number of adverse side effects, please contact your doctor or clinician.

    This is not a complete list of side effects. If you are concerned about additional side effects, please contact your provider directly.

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Frequently asked questions about meclizine

Meclizine (generic Antivert) is used to prevent and treat nausea, vomiting, and dizziness often caused by motion sickness. It can also be used to help prevent and treat the dizziness and lightheadedness caused by vertigo.

Motion sickness is incredibly common. It is caused by conflicting messages sent to your brain by motion-sensing parts of your body, such as your eyes, inner ears, joints, and muscles. Common activities that trigger motion sickness are riding in the car, amusement park rides, being on a boat, or flying in an airplane. The Mayo Clinic estimates that 1 out of 3 people will suffer from motion sickness at some point in their life.

Vertigo is a symptom, not a condition, of an inner ear problem (such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo). Vertigo can make you feel off-balance or like the world is spinning around you. These feelings can last from a few minutes to a few hours.

Meclizine is used to prevent and treat the symptoms of motion sickness and vertigo.

Meclizine is in the class of medicines called antihistamines. It is also sometimes called an antiemetic. Antihistamines help treat motion sickness and vertigo by blocking the signals sent to your brain that would cause you to be nauseous, dizzy, or need to vomit. Meclizine also has an anticholinergic action- it blocks a signal sent by your cells that may lead you to need to vomit. The combination of the antihistamine and anticholinergic effects reduces the contact of the vestibular system (structure in your ear that communicates with the brain about sensory information and spatial orientation) with the part of your brain that controls vomiting.

While adverse reactions to Meclizine are uncommon, some patients who take the drug may experience mild side effects, including:

  • Drowsiness
  • Dry mouth
  • Headache
  • Fatigue
  • Vomiting - If any of these side effects are serious or do not go away, tell your doctor.

On rare occasions, patients have reported blurred vision or allergic reactions after taking Meclizine. If any serious adverse reactions occur, talk to your doctor immediately.

To reduce your risk of side effects, you should not take Meclizine with alcohol.

This is not a complete list of Meclizine’s side effects. For more information on advice effects associated with Meclizine, please visit the National Institutes of Health’s DailyMed webpage.

If you’re taking meclizine for motion sickness, it is recommended you take it an hour before the activity that may cause you to feel sick - like riding in a car or on a boat.

Meclizine is given as a tablet and taken in doses between 25 mg and 100 mg every 24 hours for adults. For children, you should consult their doctor on the recommended dosage.

Because antihistamines can cause drowsiness, especially if taken with other medications, it is important to share the complete list of medications you are taking with your doctor and/or pharmacist to discuss the right doses.

Certain formulations of meclizine are currently only available via prescription. This means the use of this drug - in specific cases - must be authorized by a licensed health care provider.

Providers on Sesame can write a prescription – or refill an existing one – during a virtual or in-person visit. Depending on the medication, you can arrange for same-day pickup at a pharmacy near you. Book an online consultation with a real, licensed provider on Sesame today to determine whether or not meclizine is right for you.

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