It's mid-January, and you're surrounded by noses. Red, sniffling,
dripping, snotty little noses. Noses that wipe themselves on sleeves.
Or, worse, on you. Ew. And with so much germy snot in your vicinity,
it's hard to escape the fact that You Will Be Next.
So what to do? According to new research
(as well as years of practice supporting this in many cultures), kids
who rinsed or sprayed a saline solution (seawater if you can get it) in
their noses got over colds quicker, had an easier time with symptoms,
and had fewer recurring colds than kids who did not.
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