Despite needing FDA clearance to be on the shelves of your local pharmacy, some popular medicines probably don't work.

QUESTION: Years ago, I got hooked on Afrin and couldn’t sleep at night without it because of the congestion. I was finally ...

Does phenylephrine work? Doctors explain how to choose between cold medicines like Dayquil and Sudafed PE for congestion, ...

Using a nose spray like this for more than a few days can result in rebound congestion that may be even worse than the ...

In April, she’d begun to use a topical nasal-spray decongestant. The over-the-counter (OTC) drug worked like a charm. By summer, she was still using the spray daily. Yet it was helping for ...

As the cold season has arrived, so did common colds. It's important to avoid certain pitfalls to recover quickly and prevent complications.

ANSWER: Thank you for sharing your simple, smart approach to overcoming decongestant dependence. Using a nose spray like this for more than a few days can result, as you discovered, in rebound ...

Oxymetazoline works as a quick decongestant and while it's not dangerous, it can be dependency forming. "I frequently see ...

Another nasal spray, oxymetazoline, is helpful, but should not be used more than twice in a 24 hour period, and also cannot be used for more than 3 days. Another formerly common decongestant ...

A BUNGED up nose is one of the many joys cold and flu season brings each year. Though having to dab at your streaming schnoz with tissues can be a real headache, most of us tend to assume that ...