Alaway Antihistamine Eye Drops: Relieve Allergy Itchiness & Redness - 10 mL (2 Pack)

ZSAZSA RODEO: THESE COME IN 2. WORKS GREAT FOR WATERY EYES..

United States on Dec 07, 2023

Joanna Hunter: These are pretty great. They're not as good as the behind-the-counter-need-a-prescription ones, but for the price they do a great job. They do burn when I put them in, but the intensity of the burn seems to depend on how dry my eyes are. There are times the burn is so intense it makes my eyes water and I have to close them to knock the intensity down a couple of notches to bearable, but at least I know they're working. And like I said, that seems to be when I need them most because my eye allergies have dried out my eyes so it feels like I'm blinking grit.

On a normal day, these will last 10-12 hours. I have some pretty intense eye allergies, so without paying for prescription strength eye drops, I'm pretty happy with that. On bad days they last 4-6 hours, but I usually run into a bad day only once every two weeks or so.

If you're not looking to spend $100+ on "behind the counter" eye drops, or even $25+ once your insurance kicks in, give these a try. They're not perfect, but they are a perfect happy medium.

United States on Nov 05, 2019

Tony: I wish I'd taken my eye-doc's advise sooner. These are excellent, and the 2-odd times a day I find I need them I look forward to the relief they provide. Usually completely resolve my eye allergies within 4-5 minutes from taking, starting within a moment of taking them. On the really bad days, these burn a little in the eyelids, but that settles after 4-5 seconds and I've noted that this is always when my allergies have been the worst, so I blame the allergy itself making me more sensitive there.

If you regularly feel like you have pebbles/grit in your eyes, or like pepper got in em, give these a shot. I bought based on their primary ingredient, and that has no real side effects vs the other main antihistamine in the market from the medical stuff I read about them when researching these.

United States on Sep 27, 2018

Ernest: I bought Alaway over  Zaditor  for 2 reasons. 1) It has the exact same active ingredient of Ketotifen Fumarate in the same concentration and 2) it was 1/3 less than Zaditor. Both Alaway and Zaditor are second generation allergy eyedrops which have antihistamine (which blocks your body's response to the histamine produced from the allergic reaction as well as mast cell stabilizers which prevent the release of histamines. When I used this I found that I had some initial immediate relief, but the true effect happened about a week or two later when I no longer had symptoms.

These eye drops work by preventing symptoms so your body will need to heal and get rid of the existing histamines before you will have 100% allergy relief. Oh yeah, and I was able to use these successfully with my Acuvue Moist contact lenses by applying the eye drops first and waiting a couple minutes before putting on the lenses.

United States on May 21, 2018

John S. Kjellman: This stuff works great when taken twice a day. It keeps most of my allergy symptoms away. I only gave it four stars as it has two issues for me.
1) I still have some slight symptoms (my allergies are pretty severe sometimes with eye secretions in addition to itchiness).
2) They contain preservatives which irritate my eyes after extended use. This one really needs mentioning and is a problem with any eye drops that has a shelve life of more than a month or two. The way I get around this is my putting these drops in my eyes, waiting 15 to 20 minutes and then using saline drops. this allows the medicine to get into my eye and washes away as much of the preservatives as possible. the only other solution if you are sensitive to preservatives is to buy prescription drops which run $60 - $120 per month.

United States on Dec 18, 2013