As most everyone here knows, damn near every nasal spray you can find
OTC or via prescription contains the dreaded preservative benzalkonium
chloride, which many studies have noted that it alone can aggravate
the exact symptoms that these nasal sprays are designed to relieve.

This is just freakin' insane.

It seems like many of the nasal spray formula's might actually be
quite beneficial, where it not for the preservative.

Here's a breif snip from one of the studies at the websites listed
below that pretty much tells the story:

Benzalkonium chloride induces mucosal swelling, which explains why the
presence of this preservative in a decongestant spray aggravates
rhinitis medicamentosa

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstra
ct&list_uids=96039729
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1
2601318&dopt=Abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstra
ct&list_uids=96197822
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra
ct&list_uids=10629450

What can we do to get this nasty stuff off the market? There has
simply got to be another preservative that could be easily
substituted.

iJah