Overview
The purpose of this pre-market clinical investigation is to assess the safety and the performance of decongestant seawater spray pocket valve enriched with essential oils by Gilbert Laboratories. The study will evaluate the results of acute rhinitis associated with nasal obstruction using the decongestant seawaterspray pocket valve enriched with essential oils over a 8 day period.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- 1. Patient ≥ 12 years.
- 2. Patient with acute rhinitis associated with nasal obstruction during infectious episodes such as rhinopharyngitis (cold), rhinosinusitis, or during non-infectious episodes such as allergic rhinitis.
- 3. a. Informed adult patient who has given written consent prior to any study specific procedure. b. Informed minor patient who has given assent and whose legal guardians have given written consent prior to any study-specific procedure.
- 4. Patient able to meet the study requirements for monitoring, spray use, and questionnaire completion.
- 5. Patient affiliated to a social security scheme.
Exclusion Criteria:
- 1. Pregnant and/or breastfeeding woman
- 2. Hypersensitivity to seawater and/or known allergies to any of the ingredients of the spray.
- 3. Diseases causing narrowing of the airways (e.g. asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)) and/or respiratory insufficiency.
- 4. Patients with chronic nasal obstruction.
- 5. Patients on local and systemic vasoconstrictors, local and systemic corticosteroids and antihistamines, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), antibiotics and local antiseptics.
- 6. Concomitant use of other nasal sprays, essential oils for local nasal use, nasal creams or gels.
- 7. Patients under guardianship, curatorship or safeguard of justice.