Brain swelling, or cerebral edema, is a medical emergency. Learn about the evidence-based treatments doctors use to reduce ...

The key here is that the saline used in the study wasn’t your regular saline spray. It was hypertonic saline with a 2.6% ...

Hypertonic saline effective in bronchiolitis Publish Date July 3, 2014 Of the patients, 42.6% treated with normal saline required hospital admission, compared with 28.9% of the hypertonic saline ...

Preventative Inhalation of Hypertonic Saline in Infants with Cystic Fibrosis (PRESIS): A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have shown that a hypertonic saline solution inhibits replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and have elucidated the ...

April 6, 2009 — Hypertonic saline administered acutely to patients in hemorrhagic shock provides no survival benefit, according to interim results of a large, multicenter trial stopped early by ...

Hypertonic saline nose drops shortened cold symptom duration in young children and decreased household transmission, according to findings presented at the European Respiratory Society ...

Nov. 9, 2018--Babies with cystic fibrosis may breathe better by inhaling hypertonic saline, according to a randomized controlled trial conducted in Germany and published in the American Thoracic ...

Hypertonic-saline-induced abortion is an outdated way to terminate second or third trimester pregnancies. Modern procedures are far more safe and effective.

Otherwise known as "saline amniocentesis," "salting out," or a "hypertonic saline" abortion, this technique is used after 16 weeks of pregnancy, when enough fluid has accumulated in the amniotic ...

Half received hypertonic saline nose drops [2] three times a day for five days; the controls were treated with “usual care.” Symptom duration was two days shorter with hypertonic saline, more so when ...