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The Beneficial Effects of Hydrogen-Rich Saline Irrigation on Chronic Rhinitis: A Randomized, Double-Blind Clinical Trial

Jin L, Fan K, Tan S, Liu S, Ge Q, Wang Y, Ai Z, Yu S. · Journal of inflammation research. 2022;15:3983-3995.

HumanOther formsPublished 2022
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Source and classification

What kind of evidence is this?

Evidence stream

Human

Reported design

Randomized blinded controlled study

Research topic

Immune and inflammatory conditions

Administration classification

Other forms

Study result signal

Not reported in this record.

Outcome type

Not reported in this record.

Reported in the source

Methods at a glance

Population or model

Human participants studied for immune and inflammatory conditions. See eligibility criteria in the linked full text.

Sample

Human study; the full text reports 128 patients, with group/assay counts including n=52, n=51.

Duration

4 weeks

Intervention

Full text reports H₂ dissolved in saline. Detected intervention quantities or schedules: 0.6mmol/l, 90%, 5%, 4 weeks, 100mL.

Hydrogen form

H₂ dissolved in saline — H₂ only unless the full text explicitly reports oxygen co-delivery.

H₂ specification

H₂-related quantities reported in the intervention passages: 0.6mmol/l, 90%, 5%, 4 weeks, 100mL. Values are not combined across different experimental arms.

H₂ flow

Not applicable — no inhaled H₂ intervention was identified in the full article.

O₂ delivered with H₂

No inhaled O₂ co-delivery was identified for this non-inhalation intervention.

Comparator

Control or comparison condition reported in the full article; see the linked methods for arm-specific details.

Reported, not endorsed

Outcomes and reported result

Outcomes measured

clinical symptoms or functional scores, inflammation and cytokines, oxidative-stress and antioxidant markers, metabolic laboratory measures, cardiovascular measures, respiratory measures

Reported result

Article-reported result excerpt (24 words maximum): “There were no significant differences between the two groups at baseline, such as gender, age, course of the disease, allergy history, pre-medication symptoms, and…” This excerpt is not a complete result summary; consult the linked full text for all positive and null findings.

Results-extraction completeness

The complete machine-readable article was checked for source identity, methods, intervention quantities, results, tables, funding and conflict declarations. This public record is based on the full article.

A reported association, difference or mechanism is not automatically a clinical benefit. Null findings, outcome type, study design and precision all matter.

Interpretation limits

Cautions and applicability

Design and reporting cautions

Human evidence; design, sample size and comparator limit interpretation. Funding or grant information is reported in the full article. The article declares no conflicts of interest.

Applies directly to

Applies only to the population and protocol reported in this immune and inflammatory conditions article.

Preliminary appraisal framework

Not reported in this record.

Preliminary risk-of-bias status

Not reported in this record.

Appraisal rationale

Not reported in this record.

No single-study GRADE certainty rating is assigned. Certainty is assessed by important outcome across a complete eligible evidence set, not by attaching a final grade to one source.

Provenance

Sources and record status

Identifiers

PMID: 35873384 · DOI: 10.2147/jir.s365611

Publisher access

A free full article is available through PubMed Central.

Extraction basis

Official Europe PMC JATS full article and PubMed/PMC identifiers; structured full-text extraction and validation completed 8 August 2026.

Record revision

2026-08-10