Summary

The FDA has proposed removing oral phenylephrine, a common ingredient in over-the-counter cold medicines like NyQuil and Sudafed, due to evidence that it is ineffective as a nasal decongestant.

The proposal follows a unanimous vote by FDA advisers last year, and recent studies showing less than 1% of the drug is absorbed into the bloodstream when taken orally.

The public comment period ends on May 7, after which the FDA may finalize the ban.

  • originalucifer
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    5513 days ago

    funny considering they caused the use of this garbage because we cant have real ephedrine cuz tweakers.

    was anyone under the delusion this shit worked?

    • @[email protected]
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      13 days ago

      My former boss (Canada) kept a bag of ephedrine bottles in our produce cooler. Dude was twitchy as fuck. Very bird/dinosaur-like.

      He would take several per day and chase them with coffee and energy shots. Then he would complain intermittently about vomiting blood due to his ulcers.

      • @cheese_greater
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        Sounds like a nightmare! The man needs Adderall, holy shit

        BTW, I could be wrong but pretty sure you dont want to take ephedrine, pseudoephedrine is milder while still doing the decongestion

          • @InverseParallax
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            12 days ago

            Think that’s epinephrine, ie adrenaline (as a hormone, epinephrine when a neurotransmitter or when affecting the heart and vasculature).

            Edit: actually adrenaline was the first European patent name, while the US discoverer used epinephrine thinking it was a different compound, interesting.

        • @[email protected]
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          213 days ago

          Wasn’t ephedrine the drug used in all those diet pill commercials from the 90s/00s? The ones that caused anal leakage, liver damage and death?

    • @[email protected]
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      2513 days ago

      Who says you can’t? I can walk up to the pharmacy counter and get some with ID. It’s usually a helluva lot cheaper than the phenylephrine stuff, too.

      • originalucifer
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        2013 days ago

        duude i totally forgot they hid it behind the counter.

        i grew up being able to buy full bottles of almost pure ephedrine billed as a ‘stay awake’ thing for truckers and the like. like no-doze

      • @iopq
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        Yeah, you have to know about it to ask for it. Most people would buy the useless shit