A simple new technique might help patients who get nosebleeds from nasal steroids

January 2004

A simple new technique might help patients who get nosebleeds from nasal steroids.

Just changing HOW patients use the spray might help.

Some patients use their right hand to spray their right nostril...and their left hand for their left nostril.

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A simple new technique might help patients who get nosebleeds from nasal steroids
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