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% ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2010;67(22):1920-1928. Due to the high osmolarity of hypertonic saline, infusion through a central line is preferred to minimize phlebitis. Most studies used a 7.5% ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

All children were randomly assigned to receive inhaled two puffs of 100 µg salbutamol followed by 4 mL of 7% hypertonic saline (n = 56) or 0.9% isotonic saline (n = 60) twice daily for 48 weeks.

Hypertonic-saline-induced abortion is an outdated way to terminate second or third trimester pregnancies.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

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

UK researchers say that hypertonic saline nasal drops can shorten a kid’s cold by two days and reduce the risk of family members getting sick too. Kids have up to 10 to 12 upper respiratory ...