Re: Danger of overusing Affrin (or other nasal spray)

[Guest guest]

I don't know about using it too often, but I do know that you shouldn't use it

more than a few

days (I think I have heard 3?) because at some point it has a rebound effect and

it actually

causes MORE congestion. I'm sure this is NOT what you want to hear. I'm sorry.

Anyone else

know more about this?

I was obscenely lucky and had almost no congestion. I still don't know how that

happened...

Cori

upper/2-piece Lefort 7/20

> I'm suffering from awful congestion in the first few days post-op, and

> Affrin seems to help a little bit, but not that much.

>

> Regardless, i find that whatever effect it has wears off after 3 to 4

> hours, but the packaging warns not to take more than once every 12

> hours. I know that medical packaging is frequently very conservative

> on dosage guidelines, so just wondering if anyone else heard anything

> from their doctors to the effect that more frequent Affrin use (it's

> pretty much the only thing helping one iota right now) was OK.

[Guest guest]

I've heard that too, but my doctor told me not to worry about it and

to use it as frequently as I wanted. Since the congestion doesn't

usually last very long, using it every hour would be fine. I used

it for about the first 3 or 4 days very very frequently. Probably

at least once every couple of hours or so. But I never did over one

*squirt* each time. My congestion was mostly gone by day 4, but I

used it as a precautionary. I had no rebound affect. That, along

with a humidifier and a decongestant like Dimetapp, and it should

all be fine.

> > I'm suffering from awful congestion in the first few days post-

op, and

> > Affrin seems to help a little bit, but not that much.

> >

> > Regardless, i find that whatever effect it has wears off after 3

to 4

> > hours, but the packaging warns not to take more than once every

12

> > hours. I know that medical packaging is frequently very

conservative

> > on dosage guidelines, so just wondering if anyone else heard

anything

> > from their doctors to the effect that more frequent Affrin use

(it's

> > pretty much the only thing helping one iota right now) was OK.