An FDA panel met and decided that the current data doesn’t support the recommendation of oral phenylephrine as a nasal decongestant. Now we wait for the FDA as a whole to take action.

The decongestant pills are still being sold for now, but the FDA will decide if that continues, the administration said. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Related article An FDA advisory group confirmed ...

The US Food and Drug Administration announced a proposal to remove oral phenylephrine – a common ingredient in many popular over-the-counter decongestants – from the market, citing evidence ...

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FDA officials said an agency review of the available data found oral phenylephrine is not effective as a nasal decongestant when taken in liquid or pill form, more than a year after an agency ...

Many people use over-the-counter decongestants for milder symptoms of a virus or to treat their seasonal allergies. This makes them an easy first-line treatment. And according to Dr. Geoffrey ...

A number of common over-the-counter nasal decongestants have relied on phenylephrine ... is absorbed into the body when digested from a pill or syrup containing phenylephrine.

FDA officials said an agency review of the available data found oral phenylephrine is not effective as a nasal decongestant when taken in liquid or pill form, more than a year after an agency advisory ...