Parents in Dundee City Council areas can now join the fight against the common cold in children. Your child does not need to have a #cold to take part. ElvisKids is studying if salt water can help #kids get better faster. Please pass the word. elviskids.co.uk

Parents in North Lanarkshire can now join the fight against the common cold in children. Your child does not need to have a #cold to take part. ElvisKids is studying if salt water can help #kids get better faster. Please pass the word. elviskids.co.uk

We have recruited 300 of our target of 480!! Thank you so much for all of your hard work EdinburghCRF 💙 NHS Lothian TASC Research UK University Hospital Wishaw NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Do you have a child under 7 years old? Would you like to support a study into trying to reduce the number of days your child is unwell due to a cold? Click the link and find out how you can help 👇

ElvisKids are finding out if children can recover quicker from the common cold with salt water nose drops. Parents in South Lanarkshire are invited, during their child's next cold, to sign up anytime. More information on orlo.uk/XPJax

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Recently, ElvisKids published evidence that cells use the chloride from salt to fight viral infections. Also, nasal irrigation with salt water helped reduce the cold in adults. We are now testing if salt water nose drops helps children fight the cold. Can you help? See below.

Parents in South Lanarkshire are invited to sign up anytime during their child's next cold for a study by ElvisKids. They are finding out if children can recover quicker from the common cold with salt water nose drops. More information on orlo.uk/ps0m9

Parents in South Lanarkshire are invited to sign up anytime during their child's next cold for a study by ElvisKids. They are finding out if children can recover quicker from the common cold with salt water nose drops. More information on orlo.uk/q8f2V

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.ElvisKids are looking for children under 7 years who are healthy right now or have caught a cold in the last day to take part in a study. The study looks to see if using saltwater nose drops will help children recover quicker from colds. Learn more: elviskids.co.uk

. ElvisKids are looking for children under 7 years who are healthy right now or have caught a cold in the last day to take part in a study. The study looks to see if using saltwater nose drops will help children recover quicker from colds. Learn more: elviskids.co.uk

NHS Lanarkshire ElvisKids ELVIS KIDS. Just a few more recruits needed to answer this very intriguing research question. Takes us back to the days when our mums told us to gargle with salt water - it might have been an actual remedy and not just an old wives tale!

Parents in South Lanarkshire are invited to sign up anytime during their child's next cold for a study by ElvisKids. They are trying to find out if children can recover quicker from the common cold with salt water nose drops. More information on orlo.uk/Di31b

Fantastic study to get your little ones involved with and help reduce colds 🤧 ElvisKids

Researchers discover ‘extremely cheap and simple’ way to shorten children’s colds by 2 days trib.al/QhxGDMm

Evidence mounts that saline nasal drops and sprays help treat colds newscientist.com/article/244674…

Giving children a solution made up of salt and water can cut the duration of a cold by two days, researchers have suggested 🤧 🔗 Read more trib.al/xPTbH1G

The ELVIS kids study results are being presented: With a two day reduction in duration of illness, reduction in transmission within households, over the counter medication use, home-made hypertonic saline (2.6%) nose drops were successful in treating children with the common cold

🤒 In young children with upper respiratory viruses, saline nose drops shortened symptoms by 2 days, when compared with usual cold treatment. The results of the ElvisKids study will be presented at #ERSCongress this weekend. Read more ⬇️ healio.com/news/primary-c…