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I take Claritin and it absolutely works. Is this not the same thing or am I missing something?
EDIT: for all the idiots downvoting a simple question…
Claritin-D has pseudoephedrine in it. THAT is why I asked my question. If you all want more people posting in lemmy, best not to insult people for asking simple questions like you used to on Reddit.
Ahh. Okay.
Claritin-D is a decongestant and has pseudoephedrine
Careful, these kids don’t like to be corrected.
You could start by reading the body of the post and see what drug is mentioned. Then compare that to your bottle of Claritin.
Lighten up man. It was just a simple question. It would have taking you far less effort to just not say anything at all.
For the record- Claritin-D has pseudoephedrine in it, genius. That’s why it’s relevant.
Next time, don’t bother posting without checking your own relevance.
CrayonRosary provided instructions for how to tell. If this change was relevant. And they were respectful about it.
Nah, I was being snarky.
And Claritin-D has pseudoephedrine in it. Which leaves my question unanswered.
”pseudoephedrine” DOES NOT EQUAL ”phenylephrine". How is your question not answered?
5 second google results:
Claritin-D 24 hour extended release tablets contain 10 mg loratadine in the tablet coating for immediate release and 240 mg pseudoephedrine sulfate in an extended-release core. Claritin-D 24 hour extended release tablets are white to off-white oval, biconvex, coated tablets branded in black with "CLARITIN-D 24 HOUR".
Read my other reply, dumbass.
A simple question which revealed you were too lazy to read the article before asking questions. You're the worst kind of Lemmy user. Why should other people do the work for you just because you're too lazy to do anything other than read the headline?
You deserved a little bit of snark. Take your licks and go read the article now.
I read the article, asshole. Claritin-D has pseudoephedrine in it. Which is what I asked what I asked.
YOU are the worst kind of lemmy user. You’re an arrogant blowhard that has to say shit when they could have just scrolled past and ignored what you didn’t understand.
Take your likes and delete your embarrassing response.
You clearly didn't read the article which says nothing about pseudoephedrine not working. If you had, you wouldn't have had to ask. Can you not tell the difference between the words pseudoephedrine and phenylephrine?
Even if we give you the benefit of the doubt, and you were asking a sincere question after having read the article, it was a really poor one. You could have mentioned what your confusion was, but you were to lazy to do even that.
Funny.
Take my what now?
It took 5 seconds on google:
Claritin-D 24 hour extended release tablets contain 10 mg loratadine in the tablet coating for immediate release and 240 mg pseudoephedrine sulfate in an extended-release core. Claritin-D 24 hour extended release tablets are white to off-white oval, biconvex, coated tablets branded in black with "CLARITIN-D 24 HOUR".
Stop being stupid.
Did you still not read the article? Pseudoephedrine WORKS! Oral Phenylephrine DOES NOT! Claritin does NOT contain Phenylephrine. The article says nothing about pseudoephedrine not working, and yet you still don't get it!
No one ever said anywhere that Claritin-D doesn't contain pseudoephedrine. No one! No one ever said pseudoephedrine doesn't work. Who are you arguing against? Why are you so dense?
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Claritin is an antihistamine, this is about phenylephrine (Sudafed PE) which was used in just about every OTC daytime cold medicine.
Claritin also makes Claritin-D which is a decongestant that has pseudoephedrine
Claritin is an antihistamine, not a decongestant.
Claritin also makes Claritin-D which is a decongestant that has pseudoephedrine
I am assuming you are mistaken and you meant Claritin-D, which does have pseudoephedrine so I don't know why everyone is downvoting you... it's also what I've always taken when I was congested and it works wonderfully.
Thank you for your response. I don’t know why either.