Re:FDA Proposes Ending Use of Oral Phenylephrine as OTC Nasa...
by TeMPOraL on Friday November 08, 2024 @04:47AM
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Homeopathic too - water allergy is a thing.
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Re:FDA Proposes Ending Use of Oral Phenylephrine as OTC Nasa...
by delecti on Friday November 08, 2024 @01:01PM
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Homeopathic pills are usually literally sugar pills, essentially small crummy candy, so not really any water, despite the purported basis of the "technology".
Re:FDA Proposes Ending Use of Oral Phenylephrine as OTC Nasa...
by TeMPOraL on Friday November 08, 2024 @06:23PM
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Sure. Sugar allergy is a thing too.
If you give me six lines written in a material safety datasheet for the most chemically inert of materials, I will find something in them that could cause some human, in some situation, to die.
Re:FDA Proposes Ending Use of Oral Phenylephrine as OTC Nasa...
by BenjiWiebe on Saturday November 09, 2024 @12:20PM
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After a little bit of googling, it seems that sugar allergy from ingestion doesn't exist. Intolerance is not allergies.
I did find that there's apparently one case of anaphylaxis caused by injection of fructose, though it wasn't the normal reaction referred to as allergies.
Re:FDA Proposes Ending Use of Oral Phenylephrine as OTC Nasa...
by BenjiWiebe on Saturday November 09, 2024 @12:13PM
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Water allergy is a skin condition triggered by contact with water. I don't think that applies to swallowing water.
If someone's actually allergic to water, they're going to be reacting all the time since they're mostly water and have to drink regularly to stay alive.