For consumers buying new products, ABC News spoke to two experts to provide four tips to help find the right solution for sinus and cold symptoms this season.
Dasgupta explained that many people don't actually know what products they are buying and that many products contain different medications that each treat different symptoms.
Cold symptoms may include nasal congestion, but people may also have muscle and body aches or a cough they want to treat and there are specific medications that target these other symptoms like acetaminophen, ibuprofen, or dextromethorphan. "When you're walking down those aisles, you'll see that there are products that have three and four medications in combination with each other. And you just may not need to have all those individual medications," Castelli said.
Certain medications that can be used to treat common cold symptoms such as diphenhydramine or Benadryl, a type of antihistamine, may also provide an added benefit of helping people fall asleep in addition to treating nasal inflammation, but should not be abused or overused.
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