KCTV: FDA Panel: Popular Decongestant Labeled Ineffective. Here’s What Does Work.

A popular decongestant in cold and allergy medicines may get pulled from the shelves after an FDA panel voted unanimously that the ingredient phenylephrine is ineffective.

KCTV talked to Dr. Todd Fristo, a family medicine physician at Saint Luke's Primary Care–Independence, about what works well to treat nasal congestion instead.

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