Brand name: Vistaril, Atarax
Hydroxyzine is a medicine to treat anxiety and to cause sedation effect prior to or after general narcosis, and to treat itching caused by allergy reactions, such as contact dermatitis, including poison ivy, and hives. It may also be used by your physician to treat certain other conditions.
It refers to antihistamines. It makes the brain to decrease anxiety. It also relieves the symptoms of allergy and pain, opens the breathing tube, and treats or prevents vomiting and nausea due to motion sickness.