Antiallergic spray preparations
AssigneeKappa Pharmaceuticals Limited
InventorDerek Bryce-Smith
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Abstract
The present invention provides a simple, cheap and efficient treatment for an allergic condition, especially hay-fever or asthma, and comprises a nasal, oral or ophthalmological spray of a dilute solution of, preferably substantially unchelated, zinc ion, especially zinc sulfate and/or zinc chloride.
Claims13
A method for the treatment of an allergic condition, said method consisting essentially of spraying a solution comprising a non-toxic, anti-allergy effective amount of ionic zinc to the eye or respiratory tract of a mammal possessed of said allergic condition at a concentration below that which causes irritation to mucus membranes, the majority of said ionic zinc in said spray being unchelated zinc and in the form of free ionic solution, wherein said solution has a zinc ion content of between about 0.002 to about 0.12% (w/v).
In a method for the treatment of an allergic condition by the administration of a zinc compound to a mammal possessed of an allergic condition, the improvement consisting essentially of:
- spraying a solution comprising a non-toxic, anti-allergy effective amount of ionic zinc to the eye or respiratory tract of a mammal possessed of said allergic condition, said solution comprising a concentration of ionic zinc below that which causes irritation to mucus membranes, the majority of said ionic zinc in said spray being unchelated zinc and in the form of free ionic solution, wherein said solution has a zinc ion content of between about 0.002 to about 0.12% (w/v).
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