Table 5 Antihistamines co-administered with chloroquine over a twenty-year period at a private hospital in Ibadan, south-west Nigeria
| Â | Promethazine | Chlorpheniramine | Cyproheptadine | Others | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
YEAR | N | F | N | F | N | F | N | F |
1983 | 170 | 74% | 11 | 5% | 3 | 3% | 45 | 20% |
1985 | 209 | 75.7% | 18 | 6.5% | 1 | 0.4% | 48 | 17.4% |
1987 | 181 | 63.7% | 39 | 13.7% | 4 | 1.4% | 60 | 21.1% |
1989 | 86 | 49.1% | 70 | 40% | 0 | 0 | 19 | 10.9% |
1992 | 103 | 52.0% | 75 | 37.8% | 0 | 0 | 20 | 10.1% |
1995 | 51 | 43.2% | 55 | 46.6 | 3 | 2.5% | 15 | 12.7% |
1997 | 62 | 44.3% | 48 | 34.3% | 8 | 5.7% | 22 | 15.7% |