Nasal spray is a great way to open up your nose when you have a cold. Why aren’t there other medicine that suppresses symptoms just as efficiently?

Question

Just thought about this. I have a cold now and the nasal spray opens up my clogged nose in less than a minute. However, taking stuff for runny nose, sneezing, and heavy mucus doesn’t ever really work. Feels like a scam sometimes to be honest considering all we’re ever told is that cold medicine “suppresses” the symptoms not cures it.

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Answer 1

Nasal sprays wash out your nose, but they don’t “fix” what caused it to get messed up in the first place like medicine does for your nose. It’s like volunteering to clean out somebody’s house that’s a wreck, but you don’t fix the underlying cause of what led to it getting messy in the first place. You could clean the house, make it nice, but then in a week or a month, it’ll be a wreck again. Fixing the root cause will lead to a longer-term resolution, but it’ll take longer to see the effects.