{"id":5695,"date":"2010-07-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5695"},"modified":"2010-07-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T00:00:00","slug":"zinc-nasal-spray-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/zinc-nasal-spray-smell\/","title":{"rendered":"Zinc Nasal Sprays Damage Smell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=justify>In a recent <i>Sunday Housecall<\/i> called <a href='http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/4293310\/unwanted-side-effect' target='_blank'>Growing Evidence that Zinc Nasal Spray Can Damage Smell<\/a> on FoxNews, Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld says, &#8216;Zinc nasal spray is ineffective &#8230; In addition, if you use it frequently, it can interfere, sometimes permanently, with your sense of smell.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A common over-the-counter homeopathic cold remedy, zinc nasal spray is often reached for to &#8216;cure&#8217; colds. Instead of risking the use of such a product, Dr. Rosenfeld recommends staying at home, drinking fluids, getting rest, and waiting for the sypmtoms to subside on their own in a couple days. <\/p>\n<p><object width='640' height='385'><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/q2T78LIWPj0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1'><\/param><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'><\/param><param name='allowscriptaccess' value='always'><\/param><embed src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/q2T78LIWPj0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' width='640' height='385'><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For safe nasal products that could help relieve symptoms, check out our <a href='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/nasal-irrigation-and-sinus-relief.asp'>nasal irrigation and sinus relief products<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Sunday Housecall called Growing Evidence that Zinc Nasal Spray Can Damage Smell on FoxNews, Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld says, &#8216;Zinc nasal spray is ineffective &#8230; In addition, if you use it frequently, it can interfere, sometimes permanently, with&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}