"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!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLsmY_yn6fM
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@macmanx For those who would prefer reading a thing over watching a video, here's the FDA report https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-proposes-ending-use-oral-phenylephrine-otc-monograph-nasal-decongestant-active-ingredient-after
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@macmanx Yeah, we all knew this stuff didn't work, because, you know, it didn't actually work.
It has never worked, for decades, and anybody who looked into it at all knew that you had to get the good meth material stuff.
Basically, for anybody in the know, this is information that was available decades ago. We all knew this.
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@otto42 Problem is, the people behind it falsified their clinical trials.
After receiving what I assume is a truck load of complaints, the FDA started running their own trials and concluded last year that less than 1% of the swallowed dose makes it to the target area, IOW it does practically nothing. And, thanks to crippling bureaucracy, it took this long for them to finally issue the proposal to remove oral phenylephrine from the list of allowed active ingredients.
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