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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Maybe.
However, my first instinct is to distrust anything the FDA or CDC says at this point. So I'm wondering if there is something beneficial about phenylephrine that they don't want us to have access to.
The silver lining to the Covid-19 cloud is that I - and many, many others - have learned to never trust them or take their edicts at face value. That's a powerful mindset.
Yeah it would be worth some research to see what other benefits have been found, but i tell ya, from personal experience, as a nasal decongestant, it’s trash.