Sudafed makes me QUITE dry -- you might try taking just one (if you've got the little red pills), and adding some humibid. I find some relief with nasal steroids (nasacort is supposedly less drying than flonase and those other -ase ones), but I have to take them every other day or else they dry me out, too. And I double up on the Humibid (guaifenesin or spelling to that effect -- it's an expectorant, to thin/clear mucous and keep things moist; you can buy plain robitussen, but I get a perscription) when I'm taking allergy medication.
Allegra gives some people immense relief -- I have a friend who takes an allegra on her lesson days.
Before I gave up sugar (sigh...) I found hot water with honey (with or without a squeeze of lemon) seemed very soothing to me. I'd sip it by the bucketful.
Isabelle B.
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