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Greg Hansen - 06 Mar 2007 15:35 GMT

I've been going through a cold or something, and last night the nostrils
of my nose were swelled shut so it was very hard to breathe, and to
sleep. Is there anything I can do about that which won't keep me awake?

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Jim Heckman - 07 Mar 2007 07:44 GMT

On 6-Mar-2007, Greg Hansen <glhansen@tcq.net>
wrote in message <esk1ig12ifv@enews2.newsguy.com>:

> I've been going through a cold or something, and last night the nostrils
> of my nose were swelled shut so it was very hard to breathe, and to
> sleep. Is there anything I can do about that which won't keep me awake?

Get an nasal decongestant spray with phenylephrine hydrochloride
or oxymetazoline hydrochloride as the active ingredient. But beware
that if you use it for more than a day or two, you'll probably get
rebound congestion when you stop. If that happens, get an oral
decongestant with, say, pseudoephedrine hydrochloride as the active
ingredient, take as much at first as you need to keep your nose
open enough to sleep, then taper off gradually.

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Salmon Egg - 07 Mar 2007 14:10 GMT

On 3/6/07 11:44 PM, in article 12usrahjur36j92@corp.supernews.com, "Jim
Heckman" <rot13reply-to@none.invalid> wrote:

> On 6-Mar-2007, Greg Hansen <glhansen@tcq.net>
> wrote in message <esk1ig12ifv@enews2.newsguy.com>:
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> ingredient, take as much at first as you need to keep your nose
> open enough to sleep, then taper off gradually.

I use a cheap house brand generic containing oxymetazoline hydrochloride. It
seems to be effective but may take a while to work (20 minutes or so. I also
have been warned about the rebound effect.

In my case, the congestion seems to be strongly correlated with the ambient
air temperature. If it goes down to about 63°F, I breathe through my mouth
whether I want to or not. To reduce the rebound effect, I give one spray to
one nostril instead of two into each nostril. For me, that seems to work for
both nostrils. I have had no rebound effect in the sense that I am no worse
off than if I do not use the spray. After all, how can you get stopped up
worse than getting completely stopped up?

Bill

-- Fermez le Bush--about two years to go.

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