Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride
What is it?
Diphenhydramine hydrochloride (Benadryl®) is an antihistamine with anticholinergic (drying) and sedative effects. This chemical is primarily in oral or injection form but may be contained in topical products. Topical uses include gels, creams, lotions, and sprays to treat insect bites, bee stings, sunburns, poison ivy, poison oak, or other minor skin irritations.
How can I avoid it?
Contact avoidance requires reading labels, package inserts, Safety Data Sheets (SDS), and on occasion, direct communication with the manufacturer that potentially produces products containing this ingredient.
Uses:
- Anti-itch cream and spray
- First aid cream
This agent is found in the following topical medications:
- Afterbite with Antihistamine
- Allergic Itch Relief
- Anti-Itch Cream
- Anti-Itch Spray
- Banophen® Cream
- Benadryl® Itch Stopping Gel
- Benadryl® ReadyMist Spray
- Benadryl® Itch Relief Stick
- Benadryl® Itch Stopping Cream
- Bite and Itch Lotion
- Dermagesic® Liquid
Other names for diphenhydramine hydrochloride:
- Benadryl
- O-benzhydryldimethylaminoethanol
- b-Dimethylaminoethanol diphenylmethyl ether
- a-(2-dimethylaminoethoxy) diphenylmethane
- Benzhydramine; (Alledryl; Allergin; Amidryl)
- 2-(benzhydryloxy)-N,N- dimethylethylamine hydrochloride
- 2-diphenylmethoxy-N,N- dimethylethylamine hydrochloride
- dimethylamine benzhydryl ester hydrochloride
- beta-dimethylaminoethyl benzhydryl ether hydrochloride
- alpha-hydroxydiphenylmethane-beta- dimethylaminoethyl ether hydrochloride
- 2-(diphenylmethoxy)-N,N- dimethylethanamine hydrochloride
- N,N-dimethyl-2-(diphenylmethoxy) ethylamine hydrochloride
- 2-benzhydryloxyethyl-N,N- dimethylammonium chloride
- benadryl hydrochloride
- benzhydramine hydrochloride
- difenhydramine hydrochloride
- dimedrol; eldadryl
- sk-diphenhydramine
- diphenylhydramine hydrochloride
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