What is the Rinonorm spray? Instructions for use of this drug explains that Rinonorm is a composition developed for the treatment of ENT diseases in children.
A metered-dose nasal spray is convenient to use, inexpensive, and causes a minimum number of adverse side effects.
The main active ingredient of the Rinonorm medication, instructions for use, explains is xylometazoline hydrochloride. In addition to it, the composition includes water, citric acid, the substance glycerol and sodium citrate dehydrate.
How does the Rinonorm preparation work? The spray narrows the arterioles, quickly removes the swelling of the nasopharyngeal mucosa, and reduces its inflammation. The medicine well reduces the amount of discharge from the nose.
The Rinonorm solution, the instructions for use, emphasize this, it starts to act noticeably within 5-6 minutes after nasal irrigation. It retains its effect for 8 hours. It is very important that the Rinonorm alpha-adrenergic agonist, the instruction explains, doesn’t just make breathing easier. It restores patency of the Eustachian tubes, sinuses, nasal openings, providing enhanced access to air. It is this ability of the drug that prevents complications that may appear against the background of stagnation of the mucous secretion.
The advantage of the drug is that xylometazoline, having a beneficial effect on the mucous membranes, is not absorbed by the body and does not enter the bloodstream.
Usually, the Rinonorm remedy, the instructions for use, indicate that they are used no more than three times a day.
It is important to remember that using the medicine for more than a week in a row loses its usefulness: it becomes addictive, the drug can no longer cope with the symptoms.
With more frequent use, first, addiction can occur, and secondly, more serious consequences are possible.
In case of an overdose of the Rinonorm medication, the instructions for use warn that sharp arrhythmia may develop that can lead to loss of consciousness or a rapid increase in pressure. In these cases, the intervention of doctors is necessary. As an aid in case of an overdose, they should prescribe symptomatic treatment: washing, taking activated charcoal, laxative, intubating as necessary or connecting the patient to an artificial lung ventilation device .
Sometimes the Rinonorm preparation can produce undesirable side effects together with a therapeutic effect. From the use of the medicine, burning or itching in the nasopharynx may appear, the development of edema, redness of the mucosa is possible. From too frequent use of the spray, individual sections of the mucosa can atrophy, which, in turn, can lead to very unpleasant consequences.
Sometimes during treatment with spray tachycardia appears, fatigue, sleep disturbance, headache may appear. Occasionally, pressure rises.
So when is Rinonorm prescribed? Instructions for use notifies that it is advisable to appoint it when preparing the patient for surgery on the nasopharynx or other manipulations. The drug is used to treat acute diseases: sinusitis, otitis media, bacterial or viral rhinitis, allergic rhinitis.
Analogues of the Rinonorm drug are considered to be Galazolin, Grippostad Rino, Brizolin, drops For Dos, Xylen, Influorin. The active substance of all these agents is also xylometazoline. However, replacing one medicine with another without the recommendation of a doctor is not recommended. The composition of the drugs, in addition to the therapeutic substance, includes other components that can provoke an undesirable reaction. It must be remembered that side effects are sometimes even more difficult to get rid of than the symptoms of the underlying disease.