"With winter setting in around much of the country, many people are also gearing up for cough and cold season. But the Food and Drug Administration now says that #phenylephrine, a long-used ingredient in many over-the-counter medicines, is ineffective and should be removed."
Update your medicine cabinets!
The FDA says oral phenylephrine, used in many over-the-counter cough and cold medicines, "is not effective as a nasal decongestant."
FDA to pull common but ineffective cold medicine from market
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-cold-medicine-phenylephrine-ineffective/
#fda #cold #medicine #pharmacy #flu #decongestant #phenylephrine #otc #otcdrugs #otcmedicine #coldandflu #science
The FDA says oral phenylephrine, used in many over-the-counter cough and cold medicines, "is not effective as a nasal decongestant."
This whole thing is bizarre. It was evident from the start (at least to me) that this new ingredient, phenylephrine, wasn't effective in pill form. That the FDA approved it was a joke and a disservice to people who need OTC medication for congestion.
It would be interesting to see if making allergy suffers lives more difficult had any meaningful effect on the production or usage of meth at all. #Pseudoephedrine #Phenylephrine #Allergies #FDA #HealthCare
FDA Wants to Pull Ineffective Decongestant From Stores: It was added to cold and flu remedies in the 1990s when another ingredient went behind the counter over illicit meth lab concerns | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/health/fda-decongestant-over-the-counter.html
Anyone who uses #Theraflu, save 50% and buy Amazon Basics! I cannot tell the difference in taste & it works just as well! #COVID #CovidIsNotOver
ALSO, Phenylephrine HCI is STILL in this product! It does NOTHING when taken orally - by conclusion of an FDA committee!
"the current scientific data do not support that the recommended dosage of orally administered #phenylephrine is effective as a nasal decongestant."
Take another decongestant along with the #Theraflu!
It took five decades from the 1970s for the FDA to finally admit last year that oral phenylephrine, used as a decongestant in Sudafed and Lemsip, doesn't actually do anything.
#ColdAndFlu #Phenylephrine #FDA #Decongestants #Lemsip #Sudafed #ClinicalPharmacology
US pharmacies are taking Big Pharma's phenylephrine based cold meds off the shelves after it has been conclusively shown they are no more effective than a placebo.
Meanwhile they continue to stock homeopathic cold remedies even though they are literally placebos. Do they think homeopathy users are just too gullible to sue them for misrepresenting water as medicine?
For something that works go behind the counter for pseudoephedrine.
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