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Ranitidine is an antacid or antihistamine, because in some books it is considered as histamine blockers and act as antiallergic where as in some books and sample papers show it as antacid.as I found 4 books as antihistamine and 3 as antacid.so please clear this confusion with a reference so that I can check out the answer. Please please please.......???

Posted by Tamanna Sharma 5 years, 10 months ago

CBSE > Class 12 > Chemistry

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Meghna Sharma 5 years, 10 months ago

Thats all dear.

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Meghna Sharma 5 years, 10 months ago

Ranitidine n cimetidine r antacids as well as antihistamine because these were designed to prevent the interaction of histamine with receptors present in the stomach walls n u know that histamine is responsible for the production of pepsin n HCl in stomach. Hence these also control hyperacidity.

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Avantika Tayal 5 years, 10 months ago

Ranitidine is a antihistamine which works as a antacid(ncert mein likha hai) it has same effect as that of antacid the only difference is its receptors are different and so is considered somewhat different from antacid....

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Tamanna Sharma 5 years, 10 months ago

It's , ok even my chemistry teacher not clear my confusion and internet is also showing rantidine as both on different -different sites.

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Shruti Jha 5 years, 10 months ago

I donno if am right but this is what i have learnt!

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Shruti Jha 5 years, 10 months ago

Ranitidine is in a group of drugs called histamine-2 blockers. Ranitidine works by reducing the amount of acid your stomach produces. Brompheniramine is an antihistamine that reduces the effects of natural chemical histamine in the body. ... So Ranitidine and Cimetidine are antihistamine antacids.

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