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Allergy & Immunology
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Urticaria/Angioedema
What is your preferred prophylactic agent in idiopathic angioedema?
Answer from: at Community Practice
I start them on Zyrtec and titrate up to 4x daily dosing as I would in chronic urticaria.
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