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How hot does it have to be..? does it burn..? and do you use swim ear to get it out afterwoulds or does it just wash out...?

Bet the misses likes the taste....nibble nibble..
I have use sudafed for all my 18 years of diving and never had a problem.
I have been taking them orally however, should they actually be put in the ear ?

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How hot does it have to be..? does it burn..? and do you use swim ear to get it out afterwoulds or does it just wash out...?

Bet the misses likes the taste....nibble nibble..

I drink it numb nuts

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I too have used sudafed (the original little red ones!) on and off for the past 17 years or so to help reduce sinus and ear issues on multiple dives both diving air to 60m and nitrox 36 on shallower stuff.



To date I've never had a problem.



There use to be a lot of speculation about sudafed and getting narked easier, I never noticed anything other than help clearing my sinus' and ears. Some aticles also mention sensitivity to high PPO2 exposure....



My personal choice to use Sudafed; I suggest before using it, take proffesional advice


Cold and diving; Lung/chest problems and diving.... don't do it...
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Used sudafed once a few years ago on a OC trimix dive, using high PP02's for deco i felt a bit tingly and a metalic taste and overall not quite right. Scared the shit out of me, never used them again to allow me to dive when i really should not be getting wet.

Funnily enough never had the feeling ever again, so make of it what you want. Since i had that feeling during a dive a few years later i was speaking to a medical rep and he said about sudafed and high PO2s dont mix.

Have used them before on recreational diving hols when i was a bit bunged up with no probs, but during that gas dive i felt very odd and have never used them again before diving and never will.





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