I'm 99% sure they don't use pseudoephedrine anymore due to the fact it was being abused to create methamphetamine for recreational use (exactly the way they did it by using large quantities of Sudafed in Breaking Bad). In most cases, it's been replaced with phenylephrine.
I think you're right. I got mighty p&ssed off after my local chemist stopped selling Sudafed Red. Twas the only thing that works when my sinus's are blocked solid :-(
I was told by pharmacist today that sudafed cant be taken by diabetics??
Have you tried a salt pipe? I have chronic sinusitis and have found this to be beneficial. I have the dry type (Salitair)but I believe there is a steam one as well.
I love this, @Guzzler !
Interesting factoid for you, the common cold virus takes just twenty minutes to infect the human body and less than twenty four hours to manifest. The virus has been shown to enter mostly the eyes rather than the airways. I am truly a mine of useless informationI love this, @Guzzler !
Funnily enough, having thought I'd batted away the nearly-cold I was brewing a couple of weeks ago, I've got a sore throat and runny nose this morning. Great!
I'm right out of hydrogen peroxide though, @Kristin251 ! To my knowledge I've never had any in the house - a quick Google just now has told me about its antiseptic properties. Might have to mount a mission to the chemist.
It really works like a charm. I buy those safety baby swabs as the cotton in a lot bigger. Dunk them in the bottle until saturated and put them in your ears. Listen to the fireworks. A bottle is less than a dollar. It also ok to gargle with especially when we have colds.I love this, @Guzzler !
Funnily enough, having thought I'd batted away the nearly-cold I was brewing a couple of weeks ago, I've got a sore throat and runny nose this morning. Great!
I'm right out of hydrogen peroxide though, @Kristin251 ! To my knowledge I've never had any in the house - a quick Google just now has told me about its antiseptic properties. Might have to mount a mission to the chemist.
Everyone is different. I always use to rely on lemsips before becoming Type 2 and then two Christmasses ago I came down with a head cold and I reached for the lemsip - blood sugars all over the place and I went to bed on Christmas Day morning and didn't wake up until the evening of Boxing Day
Awwwwwww, thanks @Kristin251 - I feel very very lucky because I took some Beechams Cold & Flu as a headache had also sneaked into the party, and headed off for my PT session at the gym. And absolutely NAILED the session, and felt right as rain!
Went for a run this morning and am absolutely tippety top! Just as well I've shaken it off as I've got three birthday parties to attend this weekend (not my own, I hasten to add!) and I don't think a cold would have been at all welcome. Glad to have missed the bullet!
Definitely going to stock up on H2O2 to deal with any future sniffles.
@ohitsnicola hope you're feeling muchly better too. Hugs!
LOL - that's so funny - I hadn't realised the original thread was so ancient, @ohitsnicola ! I would jolly well hope you're feeling better by now (although perhaps you've had a sniffle or six in between!!!!!!).
LOL!
