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Article: Your Health.(Health & Fitness)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2007
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Is your stuffy nose more stubborn this year? Many decongestants switched ingredients to avoid federal rules controlling the sale of pseudoephedrine. While it's still considered over-the-counter, now you must ask the pharmacist for it and sign a register. So most manufacturers switched to the decongestant phenylephrine.
Individuals absorb phenylephrine differently, and it works better for some than others, says pharmacist Jan Engle, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy. It's also not available in 12- or 24-hour formulations. If you want pseudoephedrine, ask the pharmacist which products contain it. Engle ...