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• KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But I don’t want a cold med.

  I want an allergy med

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  • Havoc8154@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s the same thing, you’re getting caught up on a meaningless distinction.

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    • KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Maybe to you it’s meaningless but it isnt to me

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      • Havoc8154@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m telling you it’s medically meaningless. Decongestants are decongestants. They aren’t ‘cold’ medicines or ‘allergy’ medicines. They act on inflammation in the nose and reduce congestion. How it’s advertised doesn’t make a bit of difference to what the medicine does.

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      • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s not a subjective thing. Cold medicines treat symptoms, not the disease. Cold and allergies have common symptoms.

        If your concern is that cold medicines don’t work for your allergies, thwn those tend not to work for colds either.

        If the medicine is trying to use phenylephrine in a pill, that doesn’t do anything. You might also want to skip the acetaminophen usually included and you have zero need for that, but not every co of d medicine has that.

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can’t help you with that.

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• howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Meaning that it’s just marketed as cold medication without doing anything specifically for colds?

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean, how do you treat a cold? Anything you do is treating symptoms and waiting for your body to get rid of germs.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ve always just done lots of water and waited it out. I see medication at the pharmacies labeled “cold medication”, but I never looked into what they do.

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      • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s perfectly fine. It’s not even really proven that additional water intake does anything at all. However, it usually makes you feel better which is why doctors recommend it and you should kep doing it. It’s ultimately treating a symptom, the miserable feeling.

        The term “cold medication” is basically short for “take these things if you experience the symptoms commonly associated with the common cold”. There’s a reason why the question whether humans have “found a cure for the common cold” is a science-fiction thing - we can’t “cure” it. But a cold is (in most cases) so very harmless that it’s just not worth the effort to do more than treat symptoms. Most bodies are able to deal with the underlying causes just fine on their own if you just take a couple of days of rest to let yours to its thing.

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