Exploring Dollar Tree Nasal Sprays: A Pharmacist’s Investigation

I’m a licensed pharmacist in three states. And today I’m gonna be trying a very exceptional Dollar Tree medication. Alright. I found a nasal spray that really peaked my interest. But not for the reason you’re thinking of. Look at this. There’s two of them here. I’m gonna get them both. I’m gonna figure out what the difference between these is. Now, why in the world was there two of those there? I’m. I’m very curious to figure this out. Okay. Nasal relief by Family Care. Compared to Afrin original active ingredient. Compared to Afrin severe congestion active ingredient. What is going on here? Look at the active ingredient. Oxymetazoline 0.05%. Oxymetazoline, 0.05%. If anyone can figure out what the difference is before I do, let me know. I’m. I’m very interested to see how you guys can figure this out. Features maximum strength, fast power, congestive relief, fast and powerful. Congestive relief, maximum strength. Oh, with menthol. Okay, so this one has menthol in it. Okay. Okay, I see. Is that. Do you need a whole new package for just the menthol? I don’t know. Let’s look here. I mean, these are exactly the same. I’m not gonna read all this. Just gives you instructions. As if someone couldn’t figure out how to spray things into their nose. Alright. Active ingredients, same thing. Oxybutynin and oxybutynin. Directions appear to be exactly the same. Now, if you guys don’t already know, this chemical is habit forming. I’m not even kidding. There are articles written about it. Um, I don’t want to use the word addicted, but they use this, and they have a very difficult time stopping using it. So here are the medication facts. And this is distributed by our boys over in Cypress Hill. Insane in the membrane. Cypress Hill. Let’s open these up. This looks like a giraffe. If a giraffe were a medication, it would be this. This looks like a red giraffe. Okay, let’s get this paper off of it. One of our thoughtful viewers mentioned that I need to cut away from me when I open these. Thank you for those who reached out to me. Wow. Because these are actually habit forming, and I do have some stuffiness today, but it’s not really enough to try something like this. I’m actually not going to use this. I don’t want to use this because I don’t have to. So. Because it does have that risk, I just don’t want to take that risk. But we can at least squirt it a couple times and see what it looks like. Oh, my gosh. I don’t know if you can see that. It’s a Misty boy. Hmm. Oh, hey, that’s not perfume. What am I doing? Someone get Jeremy fragrance in here. Someone, someone tag Jeremy fragrance in this and see if he’ll give his honest opinion on how this smells. No, it doesn’t smell like anything, actually. Okay, what happens if we do wheel these Oh, I gotta prime this one. Oh, whoa, check that out. Haha. What’s really neat about that medication is it’s a. It’s a vasoconstrictor, right? So we actually use that off label to stop bleeding. Bleeding in the mouth. I’ve seen orders for. They. They spray it on a cotton swab and then put the cotton swab on the mouth, and that reduces the blood flow to the area and stops the bleeding. So, um, although technically you’re not supposed to do that under medical supervision, we. We do that frequently enough. Really interesting fact there. I bet you didn’t know that. Nail spray using to stop bleeding in the mouth.