Binding: Health and Beauty
Brand: Benadryl
EAN: 0312547170505
Label: Drugstore.com - Drop Ship
Manufacturer: Drugstore.com - Drop Ship
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Drugstore.com - Drop Ship
Sales Rank: 572225
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Rating: - How to Choose a Cold Medicine Intelligently
This medicine has 3 main ingredients: a pain reliever/fever reducer, a nasal decongestant (which can give you the jitters) and an antihistamine (which can cause drowsiness). It has no cough suppressant.
Choosing a cold formula medication is getting more complicated, as manufacturers combine several medicines together to treat the multiple symptoms that colds bring. Knowing what medicines are in your cold formula and what they do is VERY important, for without knowing what is in your cold medicine, you are playing a crap-shoot game hoping to find the right medicine for your symptom(s). Why take a multi-medicine cold formula when you only have perhaps one or two major symptoms that you need relief for? All medicines have side effects, and the more medicines that are combined in a product, the more chance for unwanted side-effects. Therefore, I have written out a list of the most common ingredients in cold formulas and what they do so that you can intelligently buy a cold medicine that actually does what you want it to do.
Ingredients:
The Pain Reliever: Acetaminophen. This is the active ingredient in Tylenol and it is a pain reliever - good for headaches, muscle aches, etc. Like aspirin, it has few side effects, and the majority of people can take it without having to worry about side-effects. Just about every cold formula has this ingredient.
The Decongestant (for nasal/sinus suffiness): Psuedoephedrine, Phenylephrine, and Oxymetazoline. ... Read More
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