⚠️ Warnings
Pregnancy
Pregnancy:
Diagnostic: In case of pregnancy, consult your doctor, pharmacist, or healthcare professional before undergoing a skin prick test. Immunomodulator: If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant, or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before using this medicinal product. There is no information on the use of Histamine in pregnant women.
Breast-feeding
Breast-feeding:
Diagnostic: The skin prick test may be performed if you are breast-feeding. Immunomodulator: It is not known whether this medicinal product passes into breast milk. Therefore, it should not be used during breast-feeding.
Driving
Driving:
Do not drive for one hour after receiving an injection of this medicinal product, as it may lower blood pressure, causing dizziness, light-headedness, and blurred vision. This may affect your ability to drive.
Diagnostic:
Certain conditions may influence the interpretation of the skin prick test result; therefore: Inform your doctor or healthcare professional before performing the skin prick test if you have any of the following conditions:
– You suffer from active-phase eczema or other skin diseases in the skin area used for testing;
– If you have had a lymph node removed from the armpit;
– Your general state of health is severely affected by any disease.
Immunomodulator:
Histamine and IL-2 must not be injected at the same time.
IL-2 must be injected first.
Histamine must be injected 1 to 3 minutes later.
Histamine must be injected slowly into the layer of tissue immediately beneath the skin (subcutaneous injection), over a period of approximately 5 to 15 minutes.
Rapid injection may cause a drop in blood pressure and a feeling of faintness or even fainting. Your treatment with Histamine will be initiated in a clinic, under the supervision of a doctor.
You will need to be monitored to check how you respond to treatment.
The doctor will check your blood pressure, heart rate, and pulmonary function.
The doctor will also carry out some blood tests during treatment.
If you have suffered from any of the following conditions, you will be monitored in hospital during the following treatment days or during the following treatment cycles:
– bleeding ulcers,
– stroke,
– narrowing of the arteries (systemic peripheral arterial disease),
– heart disease (regarding serious cardiac problems),
– history of autoimmune disease (a disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own cells and tissues, such as systemic lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, or psoriasis).
If you are taking other medicines or if you have a planned surgery or a special diagnostic X-ray examination requiring an injection, speak with your doctor.
If you have an infection, the doctor will monitor you closely.
If you had an infection in the 14 days prior to starting this treatment for which you needed to take medicines (antibiotics, antifungals, or antivirals), the doctor will monitor you closely.
If you have kidney problems, speak with your doctor before using this medicinal product.
A decrease in blood pressure may occur.
If you have liver problems, speak with your doctor before using this medicinal product.
The doctor may adjust the dose.
