Matt Hodgkinson<p>It took five decades from the 1970s for the FDA to finally admit last year that oral phenylephrine, used as a decongestant in Sudafed and Lemsip, doesn't actually do anything.</p><p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-two-pharmacists-figured-out-that-decongestants-dont-work/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/how-two-pharmacists-figured-out-that-decongestants-dont-work/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ColdAndFlu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdAndFlu</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Phenylephrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Phenylephrine</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/FDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FDA</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Decongestants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Decongestants</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Lemsip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lemsip</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Sudafed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sudafed</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ClinicalPharmacology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClinicalPharmacology</span></a></p>