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Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2008

Filed:

Jan. 16, 2001
Applicants:

Melton B. Affrime, Warren, NJ (US);

Christopher R. Banfield, High Bridge, NJ (US);

Samir K. Gupta, East Brunswick, NJ (US);

Desmond Padhi, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

Inventors:

Melton B. Affrime, Warren, NJ (US);

Christopher R. Banfield, High Bridge, NJ (US);

Samir K. Gupta, East Brunswick, NJ (US);

Desmond Padhi, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

Assignee:

Schering Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 31/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of treating and/or preventing allergic and inflammatory conditions of the skin or upper and lower airway passages, e.g. seasonal allergic rhinitis, perennial allergic rhinitis, or chronic idopathic urticaria, in a human more 12 years old, by administering an amount of desloratadine, e.g. 2×2.5 mg or 5 mg/day for a time sufficient to produce a geometric mean steady state maximum plasma concentration of desloratadine in the range of about 2.90 ng/mL to about 4.54 ng/mL, or a arithmetic mean steady state maximum plasma concentration of desloratadine in the range of about 3.2 ng/mL to about 5.0 ng/mL is disclosed.


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