Nasal spray

It's a great idea to spray nasal saline in your kids' noses every day before school.

And there's another product I recommend, and I use it myself, and that's xylitol nasal spray.

Xylitol is a naturally occurring sugar alcohol.

You might recognize it from sugar-free gum because it does help prevent cavities.

But it also comes in a saline nasal spray.

The idea is that your nose is one of the main places that respiratory viruses get into your body, and xylitol seems to make it harder for some germs to stick to the lining of the nose.

There have been some intriguing studies, but we don't have big studies that show that children who regularly use xylitol get fewer colds or other infections.

Anyway, it is certainly not a bad idea.

Otrivine? What's that?

Otrivine is the nasal spray that-

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... clears up your...

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I'm using a nasal spray.

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That has medicine in it.

My favorite nasal spray that I've been using is the Beekeeper's Naturals Propolis nasal spray.

It's like a natural anti-inflammatory thing.