Posted on 08/31/2023 8:00:39 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny
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They can’t really make predictions, but I’m always optimistic.
Found this....
FDA rules TODAY that ingredient in Benadryl and Sudafed from pharmacy shelves doesn’t work
•Phenylephrine is everywhere and every nasal decongestant contains it
•The vote deeming it ineffective paves the way for it to be pulled from market
•READ MORE: FDA to reevaluate ineffective over-the-counter medicine
A medicine used by millions of Americans for a stuffy nose does not work, a Food and Drug Administration panel ruled today.
Phenylephrine is the most common active compound in over-the-counter drugs like Benadryl Allergy Plus Congestion, Sudafed PE, and Tylenol Cold and Flu Severe Day & Night.
But an FDA panel said after a two-day review that the oral decongestant ‘is not effective’ at standard or even high doses compared to a placebo.
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I didn’t ask that.
There are a lot of people on this thread who aren’t part of the issue so I would hope that it could be resolved off the public thread.
Just like a family resolves their issues in their home and not at the family reunion picnic or in a public restaurant.
That’s it, Judy.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
💕
:-)
Thank you, LG.
It’s very sparkly.
I’m afraid I may leave a rhinestone trail as we drive.
:-D
What is posted on the thread can easily be verified and seen by all, so how is that gossip?
It’s easy to figure out most “gossip is in private anyway”
oh no, they will probably return. It’s cooled down here too due to rain, yeah! But it will probably get back to hot again for awhile.
Romney’s letter to Utah.
I am not running again because they are on to me hanging with gays during college.
Most Canadians I know are mostly half buzzed always.
And not just my family.
Thanks.
Exactly, thank you Judy. And some people, or their spokesperson, have requested not to be pinged on certain topics. We must consider their feelings.
JUDY, JUST DROP IT!!!
I heard an interview with someone whose house that piece of garbage had been in. I was thinking to myself, if he had been in my house that would have been the end of his journey.
They’re dying everyday from fentanyl, and Lord knows what with human trafficking.
It is infuriating.
Good to hear!
Thanks! Just like the flu shot.
What does half buzzed mean? I’m not familiar with the term. Does it mean drunk?
Those pies are beautiful
When you’re such a funny and upbeat person, I really don’t get it.
Well, CottonBall, not everyone likes to laugh!
I think that maybe some people want attention and if anyone else tells a joke or a funny story they look at it as losing attention.
Also, sometimes a person who is unhappy is annoyed by someone who seems to be happy.
Maybe they’re suffering and so they react negatively but it’s too bad. However, I have no control over that so I let it go.
I have good friends and family and a wonderful, hilarious husband.
I am so blessed that it would be wrong for me to complain about a few local neighbor ladies who I didn’t even know existed before we moved here.
And, who knows?, with prayer they might change.
That is in God’s hands.
When I come across unhappy people who reject me, I pray that they will find happiness and I continue to try (try! Lol!) to treat them with love.
St. John of the Cross said, “Where there is no Love, put Love, and you will find Love”.
I’m not great at doing that but, for me, it’s worth trying.
Christ is Love and He is the most important thing in my life.
As long as He loves me, I’m good.
😊
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“However, I think that certain discussions should be kept off the thread.”
Sorry for the lack of clarity and thanks for pointing it out.
I only meant negative personal issues between posters.
We all have free speech here! Lol!
As far as Q, I think JimRob asked for that subject to be kept exclusively on the Q thread.
I’ll follow his rules.
Hi, Jim! Love you! 💕
Another one.....
This story about cold medicine is infuriating
JOHN SEXTON 9:20 PM on September 12, 2023
I know that drug companies are pretty standard villains on the left. After reading this story I may be joining them.
Today an FDA advisory panel decided that a common ingredient in over-the-counter cold remedies was ineffective. It’s called phenylephrine and it’s included in hundreds of products under various names. These products are a gold mine for drug companies like GlaxoSmithKline:
Every cold and flu season, millions of Americans reach for these products, some over decades. The decongestant is in at least 250 products that were worth nearly $1.8 billion in sales last year, according to an agency presentation. Among the products: Sudafed Sinus Congestion, Tylenol Cold & Flu Severe, NyQuil Severe Cold & Flu, Theraflu Severe Cold Relief, Mucinex Sinus Max and others.
But the reason this panel voted it didn’t work is that we’ve had scientific evidence going back several decades that phenylephrine is useless at drying up congestion, at least when it’s consumed orally.
“If you have a stuffy nose and you take this medicine, you will still have a stuffy nose,” said Dr. Leslie Hendeles, a pharmacist from the University of Florida in Gainesville who, along with colleagues, first petitioned the F.D.A. in 2007 to remove the drug from the market…
Now an emeritus professor, Dr. Hendeles said in an interview on Tuesday that he had been evaluating the ingredient since 1993.
“The bottom line is quality research has told the true story about phenylephrine,” he said.
For consumers, the potential benefits of ending use of the ingredient, the agency suggested, would include avoiding unnecessary costs or delays in care by “taking a drug that has no benefit.”
So it has been pretty clear for 15 or more years that this ingredient does not work but they just keep selling it to us. If you’ve ever gotten a bad cold that made it hard to breath through your nose and your OTC medicine didn’t seem to help, now you know why. Despite this, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association which represents the drug makers has argued that removing this ineffective ingredient would somehow place a burden on consumers and the health care system.
There is an alternative drug which is very effective at drying up a runny nose. That drug is called pseudoephedrine but, unfortunately, that’s the drug that was widely used by illegal drug makers to create methamphetamine. So back in 2006 controls were placed on the purchase of OTC drugs containing pseudoephedrine and in some cases phenylephrine was added as a replacement:
Pseudoephedrine can be used to manufacture meth, and during the early years of the meth epidemic in the 1990s and early 2000s, its easy availability helped small-scale dealers cook and sell the drug from their homes. In Missouri alone, there were almost 3,000 meth lab busts in 2004.
In response, Congress passed the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005, part of the Patriot Act, which, among other things, made pseudoephedrine much harder to purchase. Under the law, starting in 2006, packages of the drug must be kept behind the counter or in locked cases, purchasers have to present identification and there are limits to how many tablets can be bought (the limits vary state-to-state).
Drug companies—led by Sudafed’s maker, Johnson & Johnson—adjusted by switching ingredients. The company now sells a new formulation, called Sudafed PE, which is made with phenylephrine, a chemical which can’t be used to make meth, as well as some medications that still use pseudoephedrine.
So instead of something that worked, we got sold something that didn’t.
Read more.....
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/09/12/this-story-about-cold-medicine-is-infuriating-n577597
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