7 (UPI) --The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has determined commonly used oral phenylephrine is "not effective" and has ...

The FDA has proposed removing phenylephrine, a common ingredient in decongestants, due to its ineffectiveness, which may ...

Phenylephrine, found in products like Sudafed PE, Vicks DayQuil and Mucinex Sinus-Max, has been widely used as a nasal decongestant for decades. The FDA's proposal isn't an immediate order ...

This is a natural formula, and you probably won’t see as dramatic results as you would with other medicated nasal decongestants. Allegra is an antihistamine that millions have used to relieve ...

Flying with a cold can leave you feeling plugged up and uncomfortable. Fortunately, some effective ways exist to relieve this ...

The FDA had proposed removing phenylephrine, a widely used ingredient to treat nasal congestion, from over-the-counter cold ...

I take 5 mg of Crestor and a multivitamin daily. I recently took a generic 12-hour, maximum-strength nasal decongestant to manage typical sinus pressure and congestion. Within an hour of taking ...

These Over-The-Counter Decongestants Don't Work, FDA Says A common ingredient found in most oral over-the-counter cold medicines should be removed from the market because it doesn’t work, the Food and ...

In April, she’d begun to use a topical nasal-spray decongestant. The over-the-counter (OTC) drug worked like a charm. By summer, she was still using the spray daily. Yet it was helping for ...

Will oral phenylephrine — found in DayQuil, Theraflu and other popular decongestants — be pulled from pharmacy shelves? What the FDA is planning after finding the ingredient ineffective.