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Re:FDA Proposes Ending Use of Oral Phenylephrine as OTC Nasa... by delecti on Friday November 08, 2024 @01:01PM (#42088962)
Homeopathic pills are usually literally sugar pills, essentially small crummy candy, so not really any water, despite the purported basis of the "technology".
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Re:FDA Proposes Ending Use of Oral Phenylephrine as OTC Nasa... by TeMPOraL on Friday November 08, 2024 @06:23PM (#42091245)
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.

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Re:FDA Proposes Ending Use of Oral Phenylephrine as OTC Nasa... by BenjiWiebe on Saturday November 09, 2024 @12:20PM (#42095549)
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.

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