Posted on 09/03/2025 12:05:59 PM PDT by Red Badger
For years, Americans were told their only hope was to roll up their sleeves for Pfizer, Moderna, and the rest of the vaccine cartel.
Trillions of dollars flowed into their coffers while dissenting doctors were silenced, families were divided, and countless workers lost their jobs under vaccine mandates.
However, a peer-reviewed study out of Germany now shows that a cheap, decades-old nasal spray, azelastine, may do what the so-called ‘miracle’ experimental COVID jabs never accomplished: stop infection.
According to new findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine this week, all it may have taken to block infections was a $10 bottle of over-the-counter nasal spray used for seasonal allergies.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2838335#:~:text=Conclusions%20and%20Relevance%20In%20this,confirmation%20in%20larger%2C%20multicentric%20trials.
Researchers at Saarland University Hospital in Germany ran a phase 2 double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial on 450 healthy adults between March 2023 and July 2024.
Participants were randomly divided into two groups:
* 227 volunteers received azelastine nasal spray (a common antihistamine used for allergies) three times a day.
* 223 volunteers got a placebo spray.
All participants were tested for COVID twice per week for nearly two months.
The difference was undeniable:
* Infections in the placebo group: 15 out of 223 people (6.7%) caught COVID.
* Infections in the azelastine group: Only 5 out of 227 people (2.2%) got infected. That’s a 67% reduction in risk of infection. The odds ratio came out to 0.31 (95% CI, 0.11–0.87; P = .02), meaning the nasal spray cut the likelihood of catching COVID by more than two-thirds, statistically significant.
Not only were fewer people infected, but those who did get sick had longer protection before infection (31 days on average versus 19 days in the placebo group) and shorter illness duration when measured by rapid tests (3.4 days vs 5.1 days).
The spray didn’t just block COVID. It also:
* Cut symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections from 6.3% (placebo) down to 1.8%.
* Reduced rhinovirus (common cold) infections from 6.3% to 1.8%.
* Slashed the overall number of PCR-confirmed infections (COVID + other respiratory viruses) from 22% in placebo to 9.3% with azelastine.
Compare that to the COVID shots: expensive, rushed, mandated, and now known to have diminishing efficacy against new variants and side effects. The vaccines were pitched as our salvation but couldn’t stop infection or transmission.
Yet a cheap generic nasal spray, already FDA-approved for allergies, outperformed them in a head-to-head prevention trial.
And it comes with minimal side effects. Most complaints were mild: bitter taste, nosebleeds, or tiredness. No serious adverse events were linked to the spray
I next saw an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor who told me I had a deviated septum, and also Rhinitis. He told me that I was very fortunate to not have suffered any damage to my nasal passages, after having used Afrin for so many years. He said he'd seen patients who had used Afrin and had serious damage to their sinuses...actual holes in their noses from tissue death. I consider myself pretty fortunate. My doctor prescribed Ipratroprium Bromide Nasal Spray (non-addictive steroid) for the Rhinitis, and I've also used Breathe Right nasal strips at night for many years.
Google AI:
Azelastine is available over the counter (OTC) in the United States in the form of the brand-name spray Astepro Allergy, which contains 0.15% azelastine hydrochloride and provides relief from nasal allergy symptoms for adults and children 6 years and older. A prescription is no longer needed for this non-steroid, antihistamine nasal spray, making it a first-of-its-kind OTC option in the U.S.
I used Afrin for years.
Same results as you.
My problem was ‘Inverted papilloma’ in my upper sinus cavity.
Would up having three operations to remove it in 2008.................
Wow. I hope it resolved your problem.
Yes, I am completely free of the papilloma.
Only thing now is I have seasonal allergies that I didn’t have before...................
They cured the problem, but made you more susceptible to seasonal allergies. I take one 24 hour Loratadine 10 mg. a day at the direction of my doctor. I can't take anything stronger or else it affects my blood pressure. I rarely get a cold, just a damn runny nose from the Rhinitis. It's worse right after I get up in the morning, then calms down after about an hour.
Same here. I just put up with it for a few weeks and most of the year it doesn’t bother me................
Probably the saline. Never had the vax and never had COVID.
“Just for grins, start the rumor that the active ingredient is bleach.”
I wonder how well Tide Pods prevents CoVid. I have not yet met anyone who ate a Tide pod developing the virus.
/sarc ofc
17 bucks n Amazon.
Big Farmer needs to take a big hit...like allowing every affected victim world-wide to sue them for damages.
Rescind their damn”immunity”.
Xlear works great for colds and flus.
Their vaccines didn’t give us immunity, so why should they get any?...............
The Democrats lied when they said the vaccine gave immunity and we all knew it. They just said that to justify their “you kill grandma” narrative.
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