Guest guest Posted April 26, 2008 Report Share Posted April 26, 2008 I have a terrible cold I can just barely function. I decided to go to the pharmacy a couple days ago to get something to allow me to breath again. I never really used nasal sprays before but it's just been so bad that I felt like I had to do *something*. I have 2 kids, a husband that works constantly and one with asd so I need to be able to function better. I've been using it for about 2 days now, 2x a day. It worked wonders along with motrin. I decided to look up the active ingredient online because I wanted to know why it shouldn't be used more than 2x a day (I'm extremely congested!) and why it had such a profound warning that I had never seen before on medication to *only* use as directed. The warning is: " Failure to follow these warning can result in serious consequences. " In big bold letters on the top of the instructions. I looked up the ingredient and while it had a mile long list of possible problems, what surprised me the most is that I found the information for it on Dristans Long Lasting Nasal Mist (I bought Vicks Sinex) information and it contains thimerosal! I subsequently went back and did a search on Vicks Sinex because I was so freaked out and it doesn't seem to contain thimerosal but still it got me thinking... Is there thimerosal still in OTC drugs? I thought that I read that it was removed but now I'm questioning that... I don't know if it was the Rx version of Dristan or OTC that contained thimerosal. I went back and looked up one that I was pretty sure was OTC and it did not list thimerosal as an ingredient. Needless to say, I'm no longer using the nasal spray. Cheryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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