Here, the SVT reporter donates mucus – it can resolve chronic nasal congestion

After a healthy person rinses the mucus from the sinuses with a saline solution, the solution is injected into the patient’s nose. The healthy bacterial culture present in the solution should positively affect the diseased sinuses and relieve the patient’s discomfort.

In the clip, you see when the SVT reporter acts as a donor and washes his sinuses.

– We collected 22 patients who had healthy mucus cultures or others who wanted to volunteer as donors. Most of them chose to receive transplants from relatives, says Anders Martensson, chief physician at the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic at Helsingborg Hospital and doctoral student at Lund University.

The globally unique study was carried out in collaboration between Lund University and Helsingborg Hospital, and 70 percent of the participants showed fewer symptoms after three months.

treatment in the future

The treatment method is much cheaper than, for example, surgery, but it still requires more extensive studies to become part of Swedish care.

We hope that further studies will lead to this method becoming a treatment in the future. Right now, it was only available to those who took part in the study, so at the moment it’s not something we can offer as a treatment, he says.

Patients who participated in the studies often suffered from chronic sinusitis for a long time and underwent intensive medical treatment for their ailments prior to the study.