Favorite medicines: nasalcrom / cromolyn spray for allergies. Effective, efficient, elegant, OTC.

[kathryn_ironic]

If you have airborne allergies, or know someone who gets them, then you /they should try cromolyn sodium spray (generic) /  Nasalcrom (US brand name).

I'm still surprised at how many people don't know about it
I'm guessing its main problem is that it's a spray- apparently expensive- sitting on the shelf with a bunch of other sprays. However, it is

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[kouredios]

I still have a lot of Flonase, but I don't use it often enough anyway. I may have to go look for the nasalcrom.

I figured out that the new versions of sudafed weren't working well at all when I got a sinus infection last month. Yuck. When picking up my antibiotic, I told the pharmacist I wanted the real sudafed too, and she agreed that the new stuff isn't as effective at all.

[fidelioscabinet]

Then there are those of us for whom phenylephrine not only does not work as intended, but produces the lovely psychotic brain-squirrels side effect. With insomnia.