Athletic Patients
Athletic patients can take single doses of the antihistamines terfenadine (Seldane, Marion Merrell Dow) or diphenhydramine without fear of compromising their performance announced a team from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. In a randomized, double blind study, 12 healthy active subjects were given either placebo, 50 mg diphenhydra mine or 60 mg terfenadine. Maximum exercise testing produced no significant differences in oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production, ventilation, core body temperature and plasma concentrations of lactate, they rep01t ed in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.