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Salt Spray Reduces Bacterial, 
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Nose Spray May Slow Spread of Germs
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Associated Press
 
Inhaling a salt-water aerosol, a treatment often used for asthma, may also reduce the spread of germs that can spread disease, according to a new report.

People suffering from a variety of illnesses exhale bacteria and viruses which can spread disease to others.

A small study involving 11 people found that about half of them exhaled much larger amounts of germs than the others. For those people the salt-water treatment reduced the viruses or bacteria being exhaled for six hours.

The study is reported in this week's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Roughly half our subjects exhaled tens of (germ) particles per liter, while the other half exhaled thousands of these particles. The number of exhaled particles varied dramatically over time and among subjects, ranging from a low of one particle per liter to a high of more than 10,000," lead researcher David A. Edwards of Harvard University said in a statement.

Those producing 500 or more particles per liter of air were considered high-producers.

The patients were given a six-minute inhalation of aerosol salt-water solution, a treatment often used for asthma patients.

 
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