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Home Health Allergy How Nasal Saline Spray Can Help Prevent Asthma
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Written by Stanley Lang   
It may not be obvious when you first think about it how asthma and saline nasal spray could be connected. Well the connection is through the sinuses and anything that treats the sinuses is in a way connected with asthma. Many people don't know that sinus infections can cause asthma. In many cases the infection can aggravate an underlying sinus infection. To be frank with you we really don't know why sinus infections cause or trigger asthma. But it does seem to do this. It really doesn't seem to matter what type of sinus infection is going on-- they all seem to cause asthma problems.
by StanleyLang


It may not be obvious when you first think about it how asthma and saline nasal spray could be connected. Well the connection is through the sinuses and anything that treats the sinuses is in a way connected with asthma. Many people don't know that sinus infections can cause asthma. In many cases the infection can aggravate an underlying sinus infection. To be frank with you we really don't know why sinus infections cause or trigger asthma. But it does seem to do this. It really doesn't seem to matter what type of sinus infection is going on-- they all seem to cause asthma problems.

At this point I want to speak a little about the different kinds of sinus infections. The reason for this is because there is actually quite a bit of confusion and I want to describe the different terms. An "acute" infection is one that starts fairly suddenly often during the course of a viral URI. Usually the person is obviously ill, sometimes in pain.

A sub-acute sinus infection will tend to be something that starts to hang on after the first 10 days of an acute sinus infection. By then the person's immune system has been working hard to get rid of the infection and so the symptoms have died way down- but there is still a lot of nasal symptoms and the person will likely have a "dry" cough. This person usualy isn't very sick but they're getting tired of the symptoms.

If this subacute infection is not healed by the body, with or without antibiotics, it becomes a chronic infection. This infection becomes entrenched and usually very low grade. All of these infections are able to trigger either a worsening of asthma or may actually be the trigger for the first episode of asthma.

So how does a nasal saline solution have anything to do with these various sinus infections? Well first of all the use of a good nasal saline solution will help decrease the symptoms in all three of these types of sinus infections. This is no small thing: being able to decrease symptoms that are bothering a person day and night is a fantastic blessing. The big thing though is that if used correctly and aggressively the nasal saline solution or spray can help keep the acute sinus infection from progressing to a chronic sinus infection.

The common element of the nasal saline is that it is helping to irrigate out secretions that are blocking the sinus openings. It's also helping to decrease swelling which gives a chance for the sinuses to open up and drain. This all increases the odds that the subacute infection won't progress to a chronic infection. That means that it is much less likely that asthma will develop. So aggressive use of a good nasal saline solution, particularly without preservatives, can help prevent asthma from developing from a sinus infection.

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