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• diablexical@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pseudoephedrine in allegra/claritin d or in sudafed would help. These are OTC but always behind the counter and have to be requested because people make meth from it. Phenylephrin has been shown not to work - avoid. Avoid in evening as it’ll keep you awake. If you really need to clear out use a nasal saline spray or neti pot.

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  • Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In a fan of neti pot, despite how weird it feels, but be sure to read up on proper use (salt and sterile water!)

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  • KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I hate nasal sprays

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  • BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pseudoephedrine with acetometafin? Or just alone? I can get the mixture off the shelf.

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Does the cause of the stuffy nose matter? You want to make the swelling go down, regardless of whether it’s allergies or a cold. It’s just treating a symptom so any decongestant should work, no?

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  • KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But I dont have a cold.

    It’s just allergies.

    I don’t want to take cold meds for just allergies

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, exactly, you want a thing that makes the swelling go down. That’s a decongestant. Decongestants do nothing about the underlying cause. It’s just mist commonly used when people also have a cold.

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you a certain it’s just allergies, a claritin or reactin is OTC and generally effective.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      All these people answering your question and you have some dumbass reason for not listening. Lmao, enjoy the stuff nose I guess.

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Drop some Tabasco sauce in a hot skillet. Clear your sinuses right up. Can’t guarantee you’ll like it, though.

  When I was a kid, I had a nebulizer. Put some Pepsi in it. That was neat. Then I tried Tabasco. Why? I dunno. Love it on everything so I guess I thought it would be fun? Basically maced myself. Cleared me right up though!

  I’m joking. Don’t do this. But technically… I mean you can get Tabasco sauce over the counter.

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This was a weird way to do it, but I can sympathize. I have on occasion, overzealously ate chicken wings with tons of way hotter than tabasco sauce then accidentally coughed with a mouthful of and getting a sinus cavity full of partially chewed chicken and hotter than hell hotsauce.

    After clearing the chicken out, my sinuses were indeed clear, though the tears from the pain made me ungrateful.

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  • KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean, I do like Tabasco.

    Up there with Louisiana as my favorite brand of hot sauces

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    • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s a good hot sauce.

      But I really was joking — while nasal exposure to oleoresin capsicum will open your sinuses, it’s no fun. I just joke about it, not because I want to fuck with people, but because I did it to myself when I was young and dumb and it’s funny as hell.

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I agree with the consensus here- you are thinking about this wrong. Allegra-D, the one behind the counter in my state, is an allergy medicine we use for colds, because it works better than anything labeled as cold medicine.

  If you are saying you want something that treats allergies, and by treating them unstuffs your nose, that Allegra-D will work. I don’t understand why you think it won’t. The pseudoephedrine in it (the D in the name) is a vasoconstrictor that will open your nose.

  If it’s the same drug labeled as a cold medicine, it would work exactly the same.

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  • KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t think im thinking about this wrong at all

    They should just make ALLERGY MEDS that treat stuffy nose.

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    • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That is literally what Allegra D is.

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Air filtration? Lookup Corsi-Rosenthal box. It’s an air cleaner you can make from a box fan and 4 furnace filters.

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• NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can try things like vics or nasal sprayers

  Also putting your head over a warm kettle of water and breathing in the warm vapor helps

  Other things would be nasal saltwater drains. Though make sure to use distilled water and not tapwater for example

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve got pretty bad allergies and have found that Fexofenadine works the best.

  If you live in the place that abides by brand names only I can’t help you with a product name 

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  • TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fexofenadine is also by far the best I’ve used for my allergies. I have no side effects from them, no sleepiness and they work in 20 min. I use the 120mg variant.

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    • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s great! Often I get so bunged up I can’t sleep properly but I don’t want to take DPH to act as an antihistamine and also knock me out 

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Zyrtec is great too, but it causes pretty bad drowsiness.

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