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Breathed in colored hair spray on Halloween - painfully irritated nasal membranes - help!?

I was helping my daughter get ready to go trick-or-treating and I sprayed her hair with that colored hair spray. I breathed some in (didn't get in my lungs, didn't cough or have trouble breathing). But it did get in my nose, and ever since, it has felt like the skin in my nostrils is chapped and it hurts.

I have tried vasaline, bacitraycin and neosporin, none of which helped. It is not getting worse, but it is not getting better.

Any advice? Thanks!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Try taking a hot shower and let the water run on your face. Then blow out like you are blowing your nose. This should help get some of the paint out of your nasal passages.

    You could also get some nasal saline spray. Although this may knock some of the paint down your throat instead.

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