Beta blockers and allergy shots or testing


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Beta Blockers

Beta blockers and allergy injections

Beta blockers are used to treat high blood pressure, heart disease and headaches. Beta blocker eye drops are often used to treat glaucoma.

If you are on a beta blocker medication your allergist may recommend that you talk with your primary physician about switching to another medication prior to allergy testing or treatment with allergy injections. Your doctor is the only one who can safely change this medicine. You should never stop your beta blocker or any other prescription drug without checking with the physician that prescribed it first.

Beta blockers make it much more difficult to reverse a systemic reaction to allergy injections. At the clinic where I work we do not give allergy injections to patients on beta blockers for this reason. Most allergists follow these same recommendations.

If you are taking allergy injections, it is important that you inform the nurse of any new medications you are taking prior to receiving your injection.

Do not discontinue your beta blocker medication on your own. The physician who prescribed the beta blockers for you can evaluate your need for beta blocker medication.

If your physician feels you can safely discontinue your beta blocker or switch to a different type of medication, he or she will provide you with a schedule for weaning off the beta blocker and/or making the switch to another medicaiton.

See a list of beta blockers and beta blocker eye drops below.

A LIST OF BETA BLOCKERS

BRAND NAME GENERIC

Betapace sotalol

Blocadren timolol

Cartrol carteolol

Coreg carvedilol

Corgard nadolol

Corzide nadol/ bendroflunetazide

Inderal propranolol

Inderide propranolol/HCTZ

Kerlone betaxolol

Levatol Penbutolol

Lopressor metoprolol

Normodyne labetalol

Sectral acebutolol

Tenoretic atenolol/HCTZ

Tenormin atenolol

Timolide timolol/HCTZ

Toprol metoprolol

Trandate labetalol

Visken pindolol

Zebeta bisoprolol

Ziac bisoprolol/HCTZ

EYE DROPS CONTAINING BETA BLOCKERS

BRAND NAME GENERIC

Betagan levobunolol

AK Beta levobunolol

Betoptic betaxolol

Optipranolol metipranolol

Ocupress carteolol

Timoptic timolol

IV BETA BLOCKERS

Brevibloc (esmolol) is a beta blocker that is given intravenously (IV) only. It is used occasionally to treat special situations before administering anesthesia, or to treat certain heart conditions. It is always closely monitored in a hospital setting, and is not for long-term use.

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