Pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of rhinitis

摘要

The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition suitable for the prophylactic and/or curative topical treatment of rhinitis, said composition containing in combination and in each case in pharmaceutically efficacious amounts: (a) at least one sympathomimetic suitable for topical application and having vasoconstrictor action and/or detumescent action on the mucous membrane or its physiologically acceptable salts or derivatives; and (b) at least one preferably acidic glycosaminoglycan or its physiologically acceptable salts or derivatives, in particular hyaluronic acid or its salts. On account of a synergistic combined action of the glycosaminoglycan with the sympathomimetic, drying out and inflammatory irritation of the nasal mucous membranes caused by the sympathomimetic on topical application of the pharmaceutical composition are avoided and a detumescence of the mucous membrane in the nasal cavity and an inhibition of secretion are simultaneously achieved, which leads to an efficient alleviation of rhinitis.