Phenylephrine is the main decongestant ingredient in soluble and tablet-form cold-and-flu medicines such as Lemsip, Beechams, and Sudafed.

LEMSIP and other popular cold and flu tablets should be pulled from Britain’s shelves because they don’t work, experts have said. The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday proposed

When you're feeling under the weather, you likely grab your go-to cough and cold medicine. But are all the ingredients helping you fight off that cold?

Popular cold medications don’t work, say experts, as US considers ban - Phenylephrine ‘is extensively broken down in the liver, resulting in little to no pharmacological effect’