Decongestant bans: Yup, I expect you’ve broken the code on all these bans. There’s a dozen or more common items on the list and they’ve all been around for decades. No class action suits. No howling claims of problems. If you take one that doesn’t work out you don’t die——just change. My box of Nyquil is nearly two decades old. I take one about every five or so years when I get a cold just to help me get to sleep.
Besides being a possible antidote it looks like Big Pharma wants the stuff, under different names, to be prescription.
It’s reminding me of the old flap about “ Carter’s Little Liver Pills.” The same geniuses claimed the stuff didn’t have anything to do with the liver-—like it mattered. So they took “liver” out of the name. I think they’re still around half a century later.
And, oh yeah, no way are they getting my box of Nyquil. It works for what I use it for. When this foofaroo started I bought an extra box for insurance.
They don’t want any competition for the patent life of one or more things they’re going to bring out (probably with horrid side effects no less).
The FDA is comically corrupt...
Nyquil contains doxylamine succinate, once listed on Wikipedia as the most effective over the counter sleep aid in the world. It originally sold as Sominex. I buy it (cheaply) at Walmart as a generic sleep aid... take it about three times a week so as not to build up a tolerance for it. Like most OTC sleep aids it is an (older) antihistamine.
It came on the market in the 50's I think and, if I am not mistaken, was discovered in the 90's to have been an early weak SSRI drug, which of course no one realized. (Seratonin and related contribute to the circadian rhythms.)
My son, an RN case manager (sort of similar to an nurse practitioner) said recently how much he liked Nyquil because it helped him sleep. I suggested he try some cheaper doxylamine succinate but he said 'no' he would stick with the Nyquil... then I showed him that it contained doxylamine succinate. 😂 Imagine an aging intellectual wastrel upstaging a medical professional.