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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Several of us posted this info the other day and yet to many of the people freaking out about Sudafed being banned it made no difference. I know from my years in newspapers that many people never read anything except the headline and maybe the cutline under a photo. The inaccurate headline that several sites and posts used were the problem - they said Sudafed was being banned. People brainlocked on that because they never saw the explanation a couple of paragraphs into the stories. BTW, one person who has perpetuated this more than once is Salty Cracker. I'm a big SC fan but am appalled he didn't research this enough to read beyond a headline.
I can promise you anyone with bad allergies could have told you years ago that the junk they put on the shelves (Sudafed PE and others) that they are banning for being ineffective is ineffective. Real Sudafed with pseudoephedrine is effective.