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When you read the PDR it states" sideeffects include(note not OD) seizures, anixiety, aphrension, etc" When you review dive accidents where sudafed was used a reaction of bolting etc by divers on dives without problems befors occur. I have witnessed divers having problems on sudafed, I have had a problem when diving with sudafed and I have receives tons of mail when we published the material on sudafed of divers (many were MD's) who have experienced problems when diving on sudafed. If you ned a drug and have no proof it has a good effect on diving then do not dive with any drug Tom You wrote: > >I don't advocate the the use of any medications with diving. Obviously >the more physiologically trying a dive is or could become, the greater >the need to avoid extraneous factor that could, at the very least, be >unknowns or, in the worst case scneario, be an affector. > >However, >I think classifying pseudoephedrine as an 'upper' may be extrapolation. >PE works via the cGMP pathway & is an inhibitor of an enzyme >(GCyclase), to the best of my recollection. >To invoke a contribution to HP oxtox one has to postulate not only that >PE is neurogenic, that its neurogenicity will potentiate a neurogenic >oxtox mechanism. I think we may be in the realm of 'data lacks'. Love >that word - conjecture. > >Will look it up, though, But ... >Regards >Esat Atikkan > > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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