Allergic rhinitis cum allergic rhinitis, acute rhinitis, chronic rhinitis, and sinusitis are all common intranasal diseases in children, and one of the important means of treatment is the necessity of using hormonal nasal sprays. The correct use of nasal sprays not only directly affects the efficacy, but is also closely related to the reduction of side effects. The following is an introduction on how to use nasal sprays for parents’ reference.
Corticosteroids then act on the corresponding target organs to secrete their respective hormones. The morning spray of hormone drugs is relatively consistent with the time of hormone secretion in the body, so that even if it is used repeatedly for a long time, it does not inhibit the secretion of its own hormones, which can greatly reduce side effects. Of course, for children with particularly heavy nasal congestion, an additional spray at night is also allowed, especially for some children with combined asthma, who are prone to attacks at night, because their own hormone levels are lowest at night, when spraying or inhaling hormones is very useful in preventing asthma attacks.
When using the nasal spray, the child’s head should be in an upright position with a slight backward tilt, because the spray bottle has a straw, if the bottom of the bottle is up, the medicine cannot be sprayed, immediately after spraying, lie down or tilt the head up for 2-3 minutes, so that the medicine flows backward to the nasal cavity, and the medicine can be spit out into the pharynx if there is a feeling in the mouth. The therapeutic effect will be greatly reduced.
When using hormonal nasal sprays, it is best to tilt the nozzle slightly to the outside of the nasal cavity, and try not to spray the drug to the front and bottom of the nasal septum, because long-term spray hormonal drugs such as not paying attention to avoid the nasal septum, may cause the nasal septum mucosa erosion, bleeding, ulcers and even local perforation.
If hormone drugs are used together with nasal mucosal vasoconstrictor (hydroxyzoline or ephedrine) or physiological seawater, hydroxyzoline or ephedrine should be used first, and then physiological seawater after 5 minutes, and then hormone spray after 2-3 minutes. If physiological seawater is used to cleanse the nose, the head should be taken in an upright position, and the physiological seawater should be allowed to flow out from the front nostril together with nasal secretions after spraying.
Each time before spraying the bottle can be shaken a few times, press the spray when there is indeed a spray of medicine is effective spray, you can hear the “snort” sound, to avoid empty spray affect the effectiveness.