{
  "id": 18395448,
  "title": "Pharmacy and Poisons Board explains cetirizine use amid false claims",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/pharmacy-and-poisons-board-explains-cetirizine-use-amid-false-claims",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-05T23:01:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/news/pharmacy-and-poisons-board-explains-cetirizine-use-amid-false-claims"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) has warned Kenyans against misleading social media claims encouraging women to insert cetirizine tablets into the vagina for drying or tightening purposes. The board clarified that cetirizine is an antihistamine approved for oral use to relieve allergy symptoms and has not been authorised for vaginal application. Dr Wilfred Ochieng, […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}