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?
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.
This was a weird way to do it, but I can sympathize. I have on occasion, overzealously eaten 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.
I mean, I do like Tabasco.
Up there with Louisiana as my favorite brand of hot sauces
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.