A couple weeks ago on New Year’s Eve, my mom had to run a couple of errands, and I asked her if she can pick me up some allergy meds whilst she was out.
My nose was itchy and stuffy and I was having bad sinus headaches.
When she came home about an hour later, she gave me a bottle of allergy meds and she told me “I looked in two different stores, but they don’t make over the counter allergy meds for a stuffy nose. At least, all the allerg meds i could find were for runny nose.”
And I just find that weird. Because my nose wasn’t runny. It was stuffed to the point I could hardly breathe through it properly. But apparently cold and flu meds are for stuffy noses
Why don’t they make OTC allergy meds like Claritin or Allegra-D for stuffy noses?
If someone is bleeding, it doesn’t matter if the bleeding is coming from a cut, a stab wound, or a hole made by a bullet. You stop the bleeding. THEN, afterwards, when the bleeding is stopped, you can think about the underlying cause and whether you need to do anything about that (like sew up the wound, look for the bullet etc).
If someone has a stuffy nose, it doesn’t matter if the swelling is caused by a cold or the flu or allergies. You stop the swelling. THEN, afterwards, when the swelling is going down and the person can breathe again, you think about the underlying cause and whether you need to do anything about it (like antihistamines, antibiotics).
Do you see the parallel?
No, cause what does swelling have to do with any of this‽
Your nose is “stuffy” because the mucous membranes in your nose are swollen. A decongestant causes that swelling to go down.
Then you should have just said that!
Girl. The very first thing I said included “you want the swelling to go down”. You didn’t seem to mind. If you don’t want help, don’t ask for it.
JFC literally everyone has been saying cold medicine treats these symptoms and you just reply with “I don’t want cold medicine”. You’ve been given the answer. Cold medicine treats the same symptoms as your allergy. Just call it allergy medicine to yourself or something
But I don’t wanna take a cold medicine, I don’t have a cold! It’s just allergies, so I should just take an allergy med!!
The cold medicine is only called cold medicine because it treats symptoms from a cold. Which are similar if not the same as allergies.
You need antihistamines and decongestants to treat your allergy symptoms.
If a medicine has either of those, it can help you even if it’s called Benadryl, Claritin or Advil.
Benadryl doesn’t work for me anymore though.
Stopped working almost 6 years ago when I was 16
That’s not the point. Just look for the medicinal ingredients that provide relief for your symptoms. It could be called cacapoopoo cold medicine, or super crazy allergy medicine #1 as long as it has the ingredients to treat the specific symptoms