Air filtration? Lookup Corsi-Rosenthal box. It's an air cleaner you can make from a box fan and 4 furnace filters.
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They do - oxymetolazine/afrin nasal spray. Just don’t use it for more than 2 days as it causes rebound congestion. Pseudoephedrine in allegra/claritin d or in sudafed would also help. Pseudoephedrine is OTC but always behind the counter and has to be requested because people make meth from it. Phenylephrin has been shown not to work - avoid. Avoid in evening as it’ll keep you awake. If you really need to clear out use a nasal saline spray or neti pot.
Pseudoephedrine with acetometafin? Or just alone? I can get the mixture off the shelf.
I hate nasal sprays though
In a fan of neti pot, despite how weird it feels, but be sure to read up on proper use (salt and sterile water!)
You can try things like vics or nasal sprayers
Also putting your head over a warm kettle of water and breathing in the warm vapor helps
Other things would be nasal saltwater drains. Though make sure to use distilled water and not tapwater for example
Does the cause of the stuffy nose matter? You want to make the swelling go down, regardless of whether it's allergies or a cold. It's just treating a symptom so any decongestant should work, no?
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I agree with the consensus here- you are thinking about this wrong. Allegra-D, the one behind the counter in my state, is an allergy medicine we use for colds, because it works better than anything labeled as cold medicine.
If you are saying you want something that treats allergies, and by treating them unstuffs your nose, that Allegra-D will work. I don't understand why you think it won't. The pseudoephedrine in it (the D in the name) is a vasoconstrictor that will open your nose.
If it's the same drug labeled as a cold medicine, it would work exactly the same.
I don't think im thinking about this wrong at all
They should just make ALLERGY MEDS that treat stuffy nose.
That is literally what Allegra D is.
Allegra d stopped working on me
Same with benadryl.
That's why I dont take either
Drop some Tabasco sauce in a hot skillet. Clear your sinuses right up. Can’t guarantee you’ll like it, though.
When I was a kid, I had a nebulizer. Put some Pepsi in it. That was neat. Then I tried Tabasco. Why? I dunno. Love it on everything so I guess I thought it would be fun? Basically maced myself. Cleared me right up though!
I’m joking. Don’t do this. But technically… I mean you can get Tabasco sauce over the counter.
This was a weird way to do it, but I can sympathize. I have on occasion, overzealously eaten chicken wings with tons of way hotter than tabasco sauce then accidentally coughed with a mouthful of and getting a sinus cavity full of partially chewed chicken and hotter than hell hotsauce.
After clearing the chicken out, my sinuses were indeed clear, though the tears from the pain made me ungrateful.
I mean, I do like Tabasco.
Up there with Louisiana as my favorite brand of hot sauces
It's a good hot sauce.
But I really was joking — while nasal exposure to oleoresin capsicum will open your sinuses, it's no fun. I just joke about it, not because I want to fuck with people, but because I did it to myself when I was young and dumb and it's funny as hell.
I've got pretty bad allergies and have found that Fexofenadine works the best.
If you live in the place that abides by brand names only I can't help you with a product name
Cetirizine is great too, but it causes pretty bad drowsiness.
Fexofenadine is also by far the best I've used for my allergies. I have no side effects from them, no sleepiness and they work in 20 min. I use the 120mg variant.
It's great! Often I get so bunged up I can't sleep properly but I don't want to take DPH to act as an antihistamine and also knock me out
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