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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 12:51 pm
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Originally Posted by pb3
I've never come across the product here in the United Kingdom.
The active ingredient is zinc gluconate (plus glycine but that's just to mask the taste.)

Originally I used to use expensive Nasal Decongestants such as Afrin, but then a discovered that an el-cheapo product form the "99p store" had exactly the same effect at 1/8 the price
Nice.

Knowing the active ingredients and then going with generics for OTC drugs can save a ton. The cheap one may be phenylephrine rather than oxymetazoline(*), but for flight use there's little or not difference.

(* or they might both be something else entirely; OTC drugs do differ a bit across the Atlantic.)
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