Hey all, Eric Christensen back here again with the Real Life Pharmacology podcast.

I can't thank you all enough. It's truly humbling the number of individuals that have

taken time out of their day, who care about pharmacology, who are working hard to pass exams and become a pharmacist or a nurse or a physician,

you know, nurse practitioner, whatever you're working on.

And you need some help with pharmacology.

I really enjoy what I do.

And I hope you feel that through the podcast.

It's definitely been an honor and a privilege to do this podcast

and to have so many people actually listening

and trying to hone their craft and become better ultimately for their patience

as I try to do each and every day.

So with that, touchy-feely note there, I'm going to cover pseudophedrine pharmacology

or I guess we'll call it maybe decongestants, that type of pharmacology.

The two big ones are pseudofedrine and phenylephyran.

These drugs also go by the name of, probably the most common brand name I see, is pseudafed.

Sudifed, if somebody typically just says that, they're going to be referring to pseudoephedrine.

If somebody says pseudafed p.e, they're likely referring to the phenylephyran.

So there's some subtle differences within those drugs.

Sudafed or pseudoephedrine, became more highly controlled because, remember, it's part of the process of creating methamphetamine.

So obviously that became kind of a drug of abuse in that people would steal or buy tons of pseudophedrine

and use it to help as one of the byproducts make methamphetamine from it.

Obviously, you need other things as well.

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