How do cold medicines unblock your nose?

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ELI5. How do cold medicines like codral unblock your nose when you are sick? I’m asking this as someone who took codral 30 minutes ago and can suddenly breathe through both nostrils.

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What is blocking your nose is not snot like you might think, but swelling of the nasal tissues. Such medicines make the swelling go down.

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