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But I don't want a cold med.
I want an allergy med
It's the same thing, you're getting caught up on a meaningless distinction.
Maybe to you it's meaningless but it isnt to me
It's not a subjective thing. Cold medicines treat symptoms, not the disease. Cold and allergies have common symptoms.
If your concern is that cold medicines don't work for your allergies, thwn those tend not to work for colds either.
If the medicine is trying to use phenylephrine in a pill, that doesn't do anything. You might also want to skip the acetaminophen usually included and you have zero need for that, but not every co of d medicine has that.
But I don't want a cold medicine, I just want an allergy medicine that treats stuff nose!
Cold medicines don't treat colds, they treat cold symptoms, many of which are the same as allergy symptoms.
If that were the case, then there should just be allergy meds that treat stuffy nose then
If someone is yelling for help because they're bleeding out, do you first ask them whether they were cut or stabbed or shot and based on their response choose what to do? I'd hope you'd skip that part and simply stop the symptom, the bleeding.
...I don't see how that's comparable to this at all
If someone is bleeding, it doesn't matter if the bleeding is coming from a cut, a stab wound, or a hole made by a bullet. You stop the bleeding. THEN, afterwards, when the bleeding is stopped, you can think about the underlying cause and whether you need to do anything about that (like sew up the wound, look for the bullet etc).
If someone has a stuffy nose, it doesn't matter if the swelling is caused by a cold or the flu or allergies. You stop the swelling. THEN, afterwards, when the swelling is going down and the person can breathe again, you think about the underlying cause and whether you need to do anything about it (like antihistamines, antibiotics).
Do you see the parallel?
No, cause what does swelling have to do with any of this‽
Your nose is "stuffy" because the mucous membranes in your nose are swollen. A decongestant causes that swelling to go down.
Then you should have just said that!
Girl. The very first thing I said included "you want the swelling to go down". You didn't seem to mind. If you don't want help, don't ask for it.
JFC literally everyone has been saying cold medicine treats these symptoms and you just reply with "I don't want cold medicine". You've been given the answer. Cold medicine treats the same symptoms as your allergy. Just call it allergy medicine to yourself or something
But I don't wanna take a cold medicine, I don't have a cold! It's just allergies, so I should just take an allergy med!!
The cold medicine is only called cold medicine because it treats symptoms from a cold. Which are similar if not the same as allergies.
You need antihistamines and decongestants to treat your allergy symptoms.
If a medicine has either of those, it can help you even if it's called Benadryl, Claritin or Advil.
Benadryl doesn't work for me anymore though.
Stopped working almost 6 years ago when I was 16
That's not the point. Just look for the medicinal ingredients that provide relief for your symptoms. It could be called cacapoopoo cold medicine, or super crazy allergy medicine #1 as long as it has the ingredients to treat the specific symptoms
But I dont wanna take a cold medication for allergies
I wanna take an allergy med for allergies
At this point you have to be trolling or incredibly neurodivergent and unable to look past the word cold on a box. The latter is understandable. I'd suggest researching which specific ingredients may help allergies and why it might be included in other/similar medication. Consult a doctor if needed.