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Wellness Wednesday for February 12, 2025

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Is Rhino PRONT not clearing your nose?

You may need to be insistent, my experience in Germany has been the Apothekerin will try push something pflanzlich.

I think it depends on the place and individual. In Austria, two out of three pharmacists will look at you like you eat puppies if you ask if they have any chemical options (and like a potential druggie or vexatious patient if you name a specific active ingredient), but once I was passing through Munich and the lady at the pharmacy in the Marienplatz subway station enthusiastically and unpromptedly gave me two of Big Pharma's finest (this was also in a blocked nose situation).

That could be, it was a rather consistent experience in Germany even when I'd ask my German Ärztin wife to go to the pharmacy.

In Austria I thought it was odd there wasn't a topical lidocaine preparation for sunburns only spray sore throats.

In Finland there was no topical diphenhydramine, given the mosquitos, it seemed odd.

I'm using xylometazolinhydrochlorid, which usually works just fine - if it can actually get to the membranes, which it can't right now because there's no air left in my nose, just snot. I doubt anything else would work.

Rhino PRONT is Pseudoephedrine, it works well for nasal congestion. It will shrink the swollen mucous membranes. It's a tablet that works systemically.

Nasal sprays here tend to be Oxymetazoline rather than Xylometazoline.

That should work then. I'll see whether the pharmacy has it. Thanks!

If they don’t have Rhino PRONT, BoxaGrippal is ibuprofen + pseudoephedrine and Aspirin Complex contains aspirin + pseudoephedrine.

I also despise nasal congestion and was relieved to find that pseudoephedrine is easily obtainable at the Apotheke. I find that it reduces the fatigue that comes with sickness, for better or worse. And despite it being a stimulant, I’ve never had a problem falling asleep on it.

Sure thing. For me the nasal congestion is almost always the worst part.

Worse, homöopathisch.

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