In late autumn and winter, a seasonal epidemic of colds, acute respiratory viral infections and respiratory diseases begins. People try to get rid of a runny nose with nasal rinsing sprays. These medications clear the airways in the nose and help get rid of a runny nose. You can find many different nasal sprays in pharmacies. It is very important to choose the most effective and healing one.
Composition and properties
Nasal sprays containing saline solution have been around for decades. They contain additional substances that speed up healing.
Healing properties of nasal sprays:
- cleanse the nose of mucous secretions;
- relieve inflammatory processes;
- improve a person's overall well-being.
Some drops for a runny nose constrict small blood vessels. This may cause your nose to feel extra dry. Sprays moisturize the sinuses well and relieve discomfort.
The main component and basis of all sprays is saline solution or sea water, which has many healing properties. It heals scratches and cracks, relieves swelling and inflammation, and has a beneficial effect on mucous membranes. Sea water is rich in useful substances: it contains iodine, sodium, chlorine and other minerals.
The saline solution is a 0.9% sodium chloride solution. It effectively flushes out all pathogenic microorganisms from the nasal sinuses and relieves swelling. Saline solution in its pure form helps perfectly in the first days of a runny nose.
Aqualor throat spray. Aqualor Throat
- Price for Aqualor Throat from 242 rub. in Moscow
- Delivery of the drug Aqualor Throat to 807 pharmacies
Aqualor Throat instructions for use
- bottle 50ml
- Natural sterile hypertonic sea water (NaCl content 21 g/l. Contains all active substances and microelements of sea water: K, Mg, Na, Cl, Se, I, Ca, Zn, Cu, Fe, etc. Additionally contains: natural aloe extracts faith and Roman chamomile. Contains no preservatives. No ethanol!
- Spray - shower
Manufacturer
Aurena Laboratories ABC
Country of origin
Sweden
Product group
Respiratory system
Medical devices
Release forms
pharmachologic effect
has a local antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and moisturizing effect. reduces pain when swallowing, a feeling of dryness and burning. reduces swelling and hyperemia of the mucous membrane. washes away viruses and bacteria from the surface of the mucous membrane of the mouth, throat, tonsils, reducing microbial contamination. removes purulent plaque. reduces swelling and hyperemia of the mucous membrane. increases local immunity. helps both restore the mucous membrane of the throat and accelerate the regeneration processes of the mucous membrane. increases the therapeutic effectiveness of drugs applied to the mucous membrane. throat spray, the sea water contained in it has many beneficial properties, and aloe vera and Roman chamomile extracts enhance the anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and restorative effects of sea water. mouth and throat irrigator
Compound
Aqualor Throat indications for use
- for irrigation of the mouth and throat. Additionally contains natural extracts of aloe vera and Roman chamomile. For children over 6 months and adults.
- Prevention and complex therapy of acute and chronic inflammatory diseases of the oral cavity and throat - infectious (viral, bacterial, fungal), allergic, atrophic:
- - acute and chronic pharyngitis
- - acute (tonsillitis) and chronic tonsillitis
- - epiglotites
- - laryngitis
- - stomatitis
- - gingivitis
- - periodontitis
- — before and after surgical interventions in dentistry and otorhinolaryngology
- — complex treatment of acute respiratory viral infections and influenza, prevention during epidemics
- — preparation of the mucous membrane for the application of medications
Aqualor Throat contraindications
- There are no restrictions on use. Pregnancy and breastfeeding are not a contraindication for use.
Storage conditions
- keep away from children
Information provided.
How to apply sprays
The spray is very easy to use. After washing and blowing your nose, you need to close one nostril with your finger and inject the spray into the second, then repeat this procedure with the other nostril.
A small child should be placed on his side and the medicine should be injected several times into the nostril that is at the bottom. After 5–10 minutes, you need to turn the baby over on the other side and drip the drug into the other nostril.
The medicine should be used until the runny nose goes away completely.
Nasal sprays are very effective and safe; they contain only proven beneficial ingredients. They are inexpensive and are sold in every pharmacy.
How to replace Aqualor. Are there any cheap analogues to Aqualor?
The cheapest replacement option is sea salt and boiled water, with which you can easily prepare an analogue of Aqualor at home. Follow a simple recipe: add a heaped teaspoon of salt to boiled water (1 liter), cooled to 40 degrees, and mix well. “Homemade aqualor” is ready.
You can also search on pharmacy websites for a list of cheaper analogues of Aqualor, but most likely you will hardly find any of them.
If we consider the well-known salt pharmaceutical products, their price will be as follows:
- marimer (spray 100 ml) - 430 rubles;
- humer (spray 50 ml) - 400 rubles;
- morenasal (spray 50 ml) - 300 rubles;
- otrivin sea (spray 100 ml) - 420 rubles;
- quickx (spray 30 ml) - 350 rubles;
- dolphin (30 sachets of 1 g) - 300 rubles;
- aqua maris (spray 30 ml) - 280 rubles;
- aqua-rinosol (spray 20 ml) - 70 rubles;
- aquamaster (spray 50 ml) - 200 rubles.
Based on the prices given, we can conclude that all drugs are more expensive than Aqualor. Even if there is a price, for example, 70 rubles for the drug Aqua-Rinosol, then you should pay attention to its quantity, it is only 20 ml. This means that a dose of 100 ml will cost about 350 rubles.
Sometimes patients do not pay enough attention to the amount of the drug, and consider it cheaper, comparing only the number of rubles.
Therefore, cheap analogues of Aqualor for children and adults are ordinary homemade saline solutions, or pharmacy 0.9% sodium chloride (saline solution) is perfect.
Unfortunately, analogues of Aqualor Aqua-Rinosol (Russia) or No-Sol (Ukraine) are no cheaper, and manufacturers are trying to keep the price quite high. No-salt spray (10ml) costs approximately 100 rubles. You can’t help but begin to wonder whether we really have so little sea space to produce cheap analogues of the foreign drug Aqualor.
For small children, as a cheaper analogue of Aqualor Baby, it is better to use a pharmacy saline solution, however, it is prepared under sterile conditions and has long been tested in practice. After a year, switch to home dilutions of salt and water.
When purchasing analogues of Aqualor at a pharmacy, especially when the price is not so important for the patient, sometimes the question arises: “What is better to choose, for example, Aqualor or Kwix?” As the famous doctor Komarovsky says - let's figure it out.
Comparative characteristics of saline pharmaceutical solutions
Analogues are drugs that replace the main drug, but the therapeutic effect of the substitute should be almost identical. Of course, in addition to saline solutions, one could look for analogs of Aqualor that are completely different in composition, but they will have a more pronounced therapeutic effect. Such substitutes include herbal infusions, furatsilin, chlorhexidine, miramistin and others.
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"Aqualor"
The bottle with the nozzle is very convenient; you can take it with you to study or work. "Aqualor" contains sea water and useful components for moisturizing the mucous membranes of the nasal cavity. It is absolutely harmless, does not cause allergies, so it can be used to treat small children.
Types of the drug:
- “Baby” - spray or drops for babies;
- “Soft” - useful for eliminating allergy symptoms, does not irritate mucous membranes, and moisturizes dry skin. The composition includes sea water (isotonic), so the drug has a gentle effect on the sinuses.
- "Forte" - a drug based on hypertonic sea water is necessary for the treatment of severe runny nose and infectious diseases. The medicine is prescribed to children over 2 years of age.
- "Extra Forte" - a spray with a hypertonic solution of sea water contains chamomile and aloe extract. Thanks to its composition, it destroys infection and strengthens the immune system.
Depending on the age and well-being of the patient, you can choose the most suitable type of Aqualor.
Means for activating local immunity
"Aqualor Protect" is a hypertonic solution with a salt concentration of 15 g/l, enriched with brown algae extract. The bottle is equipped with a spray dispenser.
Brown algae is rich in iodine, as well as potassium, sodium, iron, calcium, and selenium. The extract of this culture promotes rapid tissue regeneration, wound healing, normalization of gland function, and activation of the transport function of the ciliated epithelium.
But the main value is to create optimal conditions for the functioning of the immune system, namely macrophages, which are responsible for the active capture and destruction of bacteria, the remains of dead cells, and particles foreign or toxic to the body. Macrophages enter the blood vessels at the site of infection, exit the bloodstream into tissues, where they recognize and destroy foreign particles. These cells phagocytose, that is, they eat bacteria and their metabolic products. Macrophages also participate in the synthesis of antibodies, transmitting information about foreign organisms to the organs of the immune system.
"Aqualor Protect" is used in children from 6 months and adults.
Contraindications: allergies to components, hyperfunction of the thyroid gland.
Not recommended for use during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
"Aquamaris Plus"
Dexpanthenol and isotonic sea water are the active ingredients of the drug. You can rinse your nose with it 8 times a day (but not more often) for 30 days.
Useful properties of Aquamaris Plus:
- heals injuries of the nasal mucosa;
- useful for sinusitis;
- relieves inflammation;
- effective for the prevention of sinusitis and rhinitis.
The medicine can be used by absolutely all patients, even small children, as well as pregnant and nursing mothers.
Instructions for use "Aqualor"
Irrigation instructions are quite simple. First, the cap is treated with medical alcohol or boiling water. Then they begin to rinse the nose by inserting the cap into the sinus and pressing on it.
Instructions for small children (up to 2 years):
- Place the child.
- Turn his head to the side.
- Insert the cap into the nose and rinse for 5-7 seconds.
- Remove the remaining liquid using an aspirator.
- Blow your nose thoroughly.
- If the disease progresses, repeat the same procedure again.
- By analogy, rinse the second sinus of the nose.
Instructions for children over 2 years old and adults:
- Sit or stand.
- Turn your head to the side.
- Insert the injection cap and rinse for a few seconds.
- Remove any remaining liquid using an aspirator.
- Blow your nose thoroughly.
- If necessary, do another procedure.
- Rinse the second sinus in the same way.
"Aquamaris Strong"
Thanks to hypertonic sea salt, the drug has a strong effect on infection and inflammatory processes. This medicine can be given even to infants under 1 year of age.
"Strong" is prescribed for many diseases:
- sinusitis;
- rhinosinusitis;
- rhinitis.
For successful treatment, you need to spray the spray 3-4 times a day for 2 weeks. The medicine clears the nose of mucus and eliminates the cause of the disease.
Types of Aqualor for children
From the first days after birth to the age of three, Aqualor Baby “soft shower” and Aqualor Baby “drops” will come to the rescue for the prevention of colds, treatment and care of the baby’s nasopharynx. Both drugs are a sterile isotonic solution of sea water that helps clear crusts from the baby’s nose and helps thin the mucus.
The “soft shower” sprayer has a convenient shape that matches the anatomical structure of the newborn and a restrictive ring that prevents excessive penetration into the nasal cavity.
After using the spray or drops, parents are faced with the question of how to clear the baby’s nose of mucus and liquid. After all, he doesn’t know how to blow his nose yet. The Aqualor Baby aspirator will come to the rescue - a device for mechanical cleansing of the nasal cavity. It consists of a reservoir with a filter for collecting mucus and two attachments - nasal for a child and oral for an adult.
The nasal end must be carefully inserted into the baby’s nostril and inhaled strongly, but not sharply, through the oral end. Mucus will accumulate in the reservoir. The filter makes it impossible for mucus to enter the adult's mouth and prevents its reverse movement. The procedure is done for each nostril separately. It can be repeated an unlimited number of times during the day.
After each use, the Aqualor Baby mechanical aspirator must be disassembled and washed in warm water and soap.
The kit includes a plastic storage case and three replacement filters.
"Marimer"
If nasal congestion does not go away for a long time, or your nose is constantly running, you need a strong cleansing spray. A liquid containing sea water is useful not only for diseases. "Marimer" can be used in a number of cases:
- for prevention if there is a high risk of contracting respiratory infections;
- during spring flowering, when there is a lot of pollen (a potential allergen) in the air;
- if there is a lot of dust or moisture in the air;
- after procedures and operations.
Marimer can be given to children. It is very important to strictly follow the instructions and not exceed the dosage.
"Humer"
A medicinal preparation made from isotonic sea water helps both adults and infants from 1 month. It can be used by pregnant and nursing mothers. “Humer” is an excellent drug for the prevention of any disease that causes nasal congestion. It will protect against viral and bacterial infections, as well as allergic manifestations.
Sprays for the treatment of runny nose have a simple composition and have a gentle effect on the nasal mucous membranes. They relieve nasal congestion and saturate the sinuses with micronutrients. The small bottle is convenient to carry with you.
