A recently-published study funded by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research finds that use of OTC nasal sprays reduces overall respiratory illness duration by about a fifth. Applied at a population level, self-care could therefore save billions in healthcare and human capital costs, as industry has pointed out elsewhere, as well as redirecting people away from antibiotic treatments that are still widely misprescribed, contributing to the fight against antimicrobial resistance.
Use of commonly available OTC nasal sprays reduces the severity of, and shortens the length of time people suffer from, respiratory illnesses, a recently-published study has found.
By treating the symptoms of such illnesses, which are mostly viral in origin, the nasal sprays studied – Procter and...