Looked into it. This isn’t what I thought it was. They aren’t looking to ban sudafed where the active ingredient is pseudoephedrine, which is the stuff that actually works that you have to scan your drivers license at the pharmacy counter to buy, it’s the over the counter kind where the active ingredient is phenylephrine which, the FDA unfortunately is right, literally doesn’t work for shit. My wife and I learned this a long time ago. If you can buy it without a drivers license honestly I couldn’t care less if they ban it because I honestly don’t know what it even does. But the good stuff that you need a drivers license to buy apparently isn’t going anywhere so we can probably put our pitchforks down on this particular issue at least.
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They banned ranitidine in the UK a while back, that's Zantac which treats ulcers adn heartburn.
It also treats the 'rona. What a surprise!
As far as I know ephedrine is still legal. Note: ephedrine not pseudoephedrine. I used to find it worked great for asthma in branded Chest-Eze tablets. To stay legal it had to be sold in a pack of 9 tablets or less, which in fact it was.
You cannot buy Chest-Eze any more though because pharmacies just refused to stock it so the manufacturer stopped making it.
They’re both still legal, and they’re not talking about removing those, just phenylephrine tablets.