FDA warnings on phenylpropanolamine

[dianec42]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking steps to remove phenylpropanolamine (PPA) from all drug products and has requested that all drug companies discontinue marketing products containing PPA.

Read more here. Especially if you have women in your house who may be taking the stuff.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled doom, gloom, and silly quizzes.

edit: Apparently this is old news. Well, it was news to me.

Comments

[scruffycritter.livejournal.com]

This is correct, but this is borderline ancient. Like 3-4 years ago.

I really miss the stuff.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Apparently they're actually cracking down now. *shrug* I got an email from a cow orker which implied this is reasonably current, and it was new info to me (I was probably out of the country at the time) so I thought it couldn't hurt to pass it along.

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

The list of safe and available decongestants is shrinking. PPA started going out a few years ago. Pseudoephedrine is going "behind the counter" due to drug manufacturing. Not going to be much left, 'cept for vaporub.

[anneb.livejournal.com]

The Sudafed manufacturers have been rolling out the 'not quite sudafed' stuff, with phehylephrine instead of psudeophedrine in it, at least around here. Apparently it's been cleared to use for a while now, but the decongestant manufacturers have been suffering from terminal inertia moving over to it until recently, when they got a good amount of pressure from drug enforcement types.

Of course, neither are ok with my blood pressure meds, leaving me with the age old remedies like "steamy mug of tea," "hot shower," and the occasional 3 days of Afrin.

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Oh, Afrin. Dangerous stuff. I was addicted to it for 10 years.

Sinuses are the bane of my existance (well, along with caulking). Been fighting a sinus headache today (even after sinus surgery)... and nothing really helps it well. Sigh.

[anneb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you have to be really careful with Afrin. It's the "last line of defense against incubating YA sinus infection" with me, usually.

Corticosteroid sprays generally work pretty well, but I need to have been taking them for the past few days for them to have any effect. Afrin &c. is for the short term.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

Look at the dates of the files on the PPA page. It happened in 2000. I was very annoyed when my favorite anti-histimines disappeared from the shelves. When they reappeared their side-effects had changed (it now makes me very drowsy two hours after I take it) and their prices have effectivesly doubled (the price stayed the same, but the dosage amount doubled).