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Vienna Children have a longer duration of illness, on average 1.8 weeks, compared to adults. The use of hypertonic saline nasal drops can shorten the duration of such an infection, colloquially known as a cold, in children by 2 days. This is the result of a study presented at the Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in Vienna by Steve Cunningham from the Department of Child Life and Health at the Royal…