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Do saline water gargling and nasal irrigation confer protection against COVID-19?
This report provides a perspective on the relevance of saline water gargling and nasal irrigation to the COVID-19 crisis. While there is limited evidence concerning their curative or preventive role against SARS-CoV-2 infection, previous work on their utility against influenza and recent post-hoc an...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7528968/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33046408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2020.09.010 |
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author | Panta, Prashanth Chatti, Kiranam Andhavarapu, Archana |
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description | This report provides a perspective on the relevance of saline water gargling and nasal irrigation to the COVID-19 crisis. While there is limited evidence concerning their curative or preventive role against SARS-CoV-2 infection, previous work on their utility against influenza and recent post-hoc analysis of the Edinburgh and Lothians Viral Intervention Study (ELVIS) provide compelling support to their applicability in the current crisis. Saline water gargling and nasal irrigation represent simple, economical, practically feasible, and globally implementable strategies with therapeutic and prophylactic value. These methods, rooted in the traditional Indian healthcare system, are suitable and reliable in terms of infection control and are relevant examples of harmless interventions. We attempt to derive novel insights into their usefulness, both from theoretical and practical standpoints. |
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spelling | pubmed-75289682020-10-02 Do saline water gargling and nasal irrigation confer protection against COVID-19? Panta, Prashanth Chatti, Kiranam Andhavarapu, Archana Explore (NY) Hypothesis Paper This report provides a perspective on the relevance of saline water gargling and nasal irrigation to the COVID-19 crisis. While there is limited evidence concerning their curative or preventive role against SARS-CoV-2 infection, previous work on their utility against influenza and recent post-hoc analysis of the Edinburgh and Lothians Viral Intervention Study (ELVIS) provide compelling support to their applicability in the current crisis. Saline water gargling and nasal irrigation represent simple, economical, practically feasible, and globally implementable strategies with therapeutic and prophylactic value. These methods, rooted in the traditional Indian healthcare system, are suitable and reliable in terms of infection control and are relevant examples of harmless interventions. We attempt to derive novel insights into their usefulness, both from theoretical and practical standpoints. Elsevier Inc. 2021 2020-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7528968/ /pubmed/33046408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2020.09.010 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Hypothesis Paper Panta, Prashanth Chatti, Kiranam Andhavarapu, Archana Do saline water gargling and nasal irrigation confer protection against COVID-19? |
title | Do saline water gargling and nasal irrigation confer protection against COVID-19? |
title_full | Do saline water gargling and nasal irrigation confer protection against COVID-19? |
title_fullStr | Do saline water gargling and nasal irrigation confer protection against COVID-19? |
title_full_unstemmed | Do saline water gargling and nasal irrigation confer protection against COVID-19? |
title_short | Do saline water gargling and nasal irrigation confer protection against COVID-19? |
title_sort | do saline water gargling and nasal irrigation confer protection against covid-19? |
topic | Hypothesis Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7528968/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33046408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2020.09.010 |
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