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MS wrote:
> Susan, you used to use Astelin (which has BC), and reported here that it
> helped you a lot. Did you notice anything happening to your cilia as a
> result?
Not at the time, but when I irrigate, the water is never pushed out by
ciliary action; it's still there 12 hours later, much of it. I have to
lie down on my left side, or bend way forward to get it to run out.
>
> That said, I'd prefer to avoid BC if I could. However, not so possible, if
> one uses any eye or nose meds. There are two steroid sprays now without
> BC-Rhinocort Aqua and the new Omnaris. I do use one of those, but I also use
> ipratropium bromide and Astelin sprays, both of which include BC. (I know--a
> lot--to use three different sprays--but I have a BAD nose!) I wouldn't avoid
> meds that help me, just because of BC.
Steroid sprays have a lot of marks against them, too. Notably, they
make you less sensitive to steroids and less able to produce them as well.
>
> For saline sprays, the aerosol kind (such as Simply Saline and
> others--Neilmed now has one, even Ocean has an aerosol version) don't have
> any preservative (not needed in aerosol), and feel much more pleasant in the
> nose, than the preserved stuff. However, much bulkier to carry in your
> pocket!
>
>
I don't carry them around, ever.
Susan
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