Posted on 09/12/2023 10:15:56 AM PDT by Dahoser
A Food and Drug Administration panel today unanimously ruled that a medicine used by millions for a stuffy nose does not work.
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.
Their ruling is not binding but it strongly suggests that the agency could soon heed their advice and pull its approval, which would force companies to pull or reformulate their products.
The ingredient is protected under the FDA’s Generally Recognized as Safe and Effective (GRASE) designation, but a reversal of its approval could mean manufacturers including Bayer and Johnson and Johnson might need to reformulate.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
You can stock up on whatever you are using now that works for you before they reformulate it to uselessness.
That’s because of the antihistamine ingredient, not the decongestant.
No, this article is about the unrestricted Sudo replacement, which does not work. That is OTC and uncontrolled.
Benadryl works great. I’ve used it for years to dry up a runny nose.
Yep. Real Sudo is a miracle drug.
Same ones still pushing the kill shot.
This information has been known for years.
Finally after consumers have wasted millions or billions of dollars and suffered needless discomfort and harm, the FDA take official notice.
Pharm family member always recommend asking for the pseudoephedrine based drugs that are kept behind the counter.
Sudafed used to work but it is not the same stuff it was before they put it behind the counter and required ID. Now it qualifies as an expensive placebo.
Public enemy #1
The drug they're talking about removing isn't Sudo, it's a worthless placebo. The FDA is actually right, for once, but people have been trying to tell them for 20 years that the replacement used for real Sudo is crap.
They're actually right for a change.
Yup, stock up while we can.
Then I suggest you don’t stock up.
Doesn’t work? How do they know that? The user makes that call.
bkmk
Lol…stocked up, long ago.
These tools always let on what they’re sick plans are.
Ah, okay. But if the product is pulled, it’s pulled.
There was a time-release pseudoephedrine with 120 mg per tablet. It nicely shutdown my chronic nasal drainage. I was pleased with that, but failed to notice that I was putting in 21 hour days with ease. The cheap source of that time-release version went away. It was too expensive to purchase the smaller packages. I found out the hard way that stopping it cold turkey wasn't pleasant. It took 3 months to get the brick off my head while gagging on the nasal drainage that returned. I only take pseudoephedrine when necessary now. Very rarely.
The FDA should be outsourced to Consumer Reports.
I want the label to be accurate, but it is no business of anyone but myself what I put in my body.
https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a606008.html
It is the DM/cold/flu versions of the medications that include it, not the plain drug.
Exactly.
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