JP2019005328A - Nasal cavity cleaner - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a nasal cavity cleaner capable of not only absorbing a liquid (snivel) generated in the nasal cavity but also cleaning the nasal cavity.SOLUTION: A nasal cavity cleaner 10 comprises: an absorber 11 which is water absorptive and insertable into the nasal cavity; a waterproof sheet 12 shrouding the absorber 11; a water absorptive sheet 13 provided on the base side of the absorber 11; and a binding band (fastening band) 14 provided at the middle position of the nasal cavity cleaner 10.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

The present invention relates to a nasal cleaner used for cleaning a nasal cavity or, in some cases, applying a medicine or the like when a runny nose (nasal fluid) or nasal congestion occurs due to a cold or hay fever. .

For example, Patent Document 1 proposes a nasal cavity device having a water absorbing body that can be inserted into a nasal cavity and a liquid discharging structure that discharges the liquid collected by the water absorbing body.
Further, Patent Document 2 proposes a nasal protection article characterized by closing a nasal cavity with a cylindrical or columnar absorbent material capable of absorbing nasal mucus.

Japanese Patent No. 4558585 JP 2007-014733 A

However, since the nasal cavity device of Patent Document 1 has a liquid discharge structure (tube) in the lower part of the water absorbing body, the nasal cavity device cannot be supported in the nasal cavity. It was necessary to hold a nasal device. In addition, although the runny nose is absorbed by the water absorbing body, there is a problem that it takes time to flow out to the liquid discharge structure below the water absorbing body.
Moreover, although the nasal protection article described in Patent Document 2 can absorb nasal mucus, there is a problem that some nasal mucus remains in the nasal cavity after absorbing the nasal mucus, and it is difficult to clean the nasal mucus. .

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a nasal cavity cleaner that can not only absorb liquid (nasal mucus) generated in the nasal cavity but also clean the nasal cavity.

A nasal cavity cleaner according to a first aspect of the present invention that meets the above-described object is a water absorbent body that has water absorbability and that can be inserted into the nasal cavity, a water-resistant sheet that has water permeability and wraps around the water absorbent body, and a base for the water absorbent body. And a water absorbent sheet provided on the side. In general, it is preferable that the water-absorbing body has, for example, a spherical shape, an elliptic rotating body, or a cylindrical shape with rounded corners. Moreover, when a water absorption body consists of a powdery thing, in order to keep a predetermined shape further, you may have a water-permeable preliminary bag (bag-like thing).

Further, the nasal cavity cleaner according to the second invention is the nasal cavity cleaner according to the first invention, wherein the water-resistant sheet that wraps the water absorbent is fixed on the base side of the water absorbent with a binding band. Thereby, the shape of the water absorbent body can be maintained, and the water absorbent sheet can be retained.

A nasal cleaner according to a third invention is the nasal cleaner according to the first invention, wherein the water-resistant sheet enclosing the water absorbent is fixed with an adhesive having flexibility after curing on the base side of the water absorbent. Has been. Accordingly, the shape of the water absorbent body can be maintained more effectively than the binding band, and the water absorbent sheet can be retained.

The nasal cleaner according to the fourth invention is the nasal cleaner according to the first to third inventions, wherein the water absorbent is a water-absorbing polymer, and the water-resistant sheet has stretchability insoluble in water. The water-absorbent sheet is made of a tissue paper material. Here, the tissue paper material refers to the tissue paper itself or an intermediate material (material) for producing the tissue paper, but is preferably insoluble in water.

The nasal cleaner according to the present invention has a water absorbing body that has water absorption and can be inserted into the nasal cavity, so that it absorbs nasal mucus and has a water absorbing sheet provided on the base side of the water absorbing body, so that it remains. You can also wipe the runny nose.
Further, since the whole can be formed compactly, it is not necessary to always support the nasal cleaner with a hand or the like in use.

It is a front view of the cleaner for nasal cavity which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a front view of the cleaner for nasal cavity which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

Subsequently, an embodiment in which the present invention is embodied will be described for the understanding of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, the nasal cavity cleaner 10 according to the first embodiment of the present invention has a water absorption body 11 that has water absorption and can be inserted into the nasal cavity, and has water permeability. A water-resistant sheet 12 to be wrapped, a water-absorbent sheet 13 provided on the base side of the water-absorbing body 11, and a binding band (or fastening band) 14 provided at an intermediate position of the nasal cavity cleaner 10 are provided. These will be described in detail below.

The water absorbent 11 is a polymer water absorbent material (water absorbent polymer) designed to have a high water retention function capable of absorbing water, for example, 50 to 1000 times its own weight. These are stored in advance in a fibrous spare bag (not shown) having elasticity and water permeability. Since the water absorbing body 11 is pressured in the nasal cavity if it swells too much after being attached to the nasal cavity, it is preferable to use a thing having an expansibility of about 10 to 100 times. It is also possible to use a polymer absorbent material having In addition, as shown in FIG. 1, when the water absorbing body 11 having an elliptic rotating body or a columnar shape is formed to have a diameter of 0.8 to 1.6 cm, the nasal cavity is absorbed even if the water absorbing body 11 absorbs water and expands. Less pressure on the The diameter d of the water-absorbing body in a dry state can be obtained, and the diameter of the water-absorbing body 11 can be determined in the range of (1-2) d. In this case, the water-absorbing body 11 fills the liquid (nasal mucus) completely (saturated state). The diameter of the absorbed state should not exceed 1.2 times the diameter of the nasal cavity. Moreover, the length of the longitudinal direction of the water absorption body 11 is good to be 1-3 cm (preferably 1.5-2.5 cm), for example. Further, the coefficient of expansion of the water absorbent can be adjusted by changing the ratio of the water-absorbing polymer and the non-expandable or weakly expandable (powder or fiber) member.

As the polymer absorbent material, it is usually preferable to use sodium polyacrylate, but other water-absorbing materials such as polyvinyl alcohol, polyethylene glycol, water-soluble monomers, acrylonitrile-based polymer compounds may be used.
In addition to the polymer absorbent material, a water absorbent material obtained by pulverizing a raw material of tissue paper or the like may be used. In this case, the expandability when water is absorbed is reduced.

The water-resistant sheet 12 is made of a synthetic resin fiber having a small diameter and is made of a woven fabric having elasticity that is insoluble in water or a non-woven fabric in a bag shape. The body (water absorber) is not leaked. In addition, the spare bag demonstrated above can be abbreviate | omitted and a polymeric absorbent can be accommodated by the bag-shaped water-resistant sheet | seat 12, and the leakage of a polymeric absorbent can also be prevented. The water-resistant sheet 12 is preferably as thin as possible.

Since the water-absorbent sheet 13 wipes off the liquid remaining in the nasal cavity, for example, tissue paper or the like is cut into an appropriate size (for example, 1 to 3 cm × 2 to 7 cm) to form a tissue paper material. Even if one side of a rectangular short width of a plurality of tissue paper materials is gathered into a flare skirt shape and fixed to the lower end (base end) of the water absorbent 11 together with the water-resistant sheet 12 with a binding band 14 Good. In addition, a water-absorbing polymer can be used in the form of a sheet for the water-absorbing sheet 13.

Here, if the binding band 14 is hard, there is a problem of hitting the nasal cavity, and therefore, the binding band 14 is formed of a fiber that does not dissolve in water and has a width of, for example, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. The binding band 14 does not necessarily have a band shape, and may be, for example, a string or a thread having a diameter of 0.05 to 1 mm. In addition, you may use a single-sided adhesive tape etc. for a binding band.

The water absorbent sheet 13 protrudes 3 to 4 cm from below the binding band 14, and the end of the water absorbent sheet 13 is a free end that opens in a skirt shape.
The water-absorbent sheet 13 does not necessarily need to be a tissue paper material, and may be paper or a fibrous sheet having water absorbency.

The nasal cavity cleaner 10 inserts the water absorbing body 11 into the nasal cavity when nasal mucus or the like accumulates in the nasal cavity. Thereby, the water absorbing body 11 absorbs the runny nose. Since the water absorbing body 11 swells when used for a long time, the nasal cavity cleaner 10 is preferably used for a short time. However, if long-time use is required, the volume expansion coefficient during water absorption should be kept low (for example, 5 to 50 times).
After the nasal cavity has been cleaned (cleaning), when the runny nose hangs down from the nasal cavity, wipe the water-absorbing sheet 13 under the nose. Since the nasal cleaner 10 is disposable, it is discarded after use.

Next, the nasal cleaner 20 according to the second embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 2 will be described. The nasal cavity cleaner 20 has a water-absorbing body 21 that has water absorption and can be inserted into the nasal cavity, a water-resistant sheet 22 that wraps the water-absorbing body 21, and a water-absorbing sheet 23 provided on the base side of the water-absorbing body 11. Although this is common to the nasal cavity cleaner 10 according to the first embodiment, the nasal cavity cleaner 20 has a binding portion 24 provided at an intermediate position thereof.

The bundling portion 24 is obtained by soaking a binder having flexibility after curing into the bundling portion. For example, a rubber adhesive may be used. The width of the binding part 24 is 0.5 to 1.5 cm.
The dimensions, structure, and the like of the nasal cleaner 20 are the same as those of the nasal cleaner 10 according to the first embodiment.
Moreover, since the usage method is also the same, detailed description is abbreviate | omitted.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above, and changes in shape, dimensions, etc. are free.

10: Nasal cleaner, 11: Water-absorbing body, 12: Water-resistant sheet, 13: Water-absorbing sheet, 14: Tie band, 20: Cleaner for nasal cavity, 21: Water-absorbing body, 22: Water-resistant sheet, 23: Water-absorbing sheet , 24: Binding unit

Claims (4)

A nasal cavity cleaner comprising a water-absorbing body that has water absorption and can be inserted into a nasal cavity, a water-resistant sheet that has water permeability and wraps around the water-absorbing body, and a water-absorbing sheet provided on the base side of the water-absorbing body. 2. The nasal cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the water-resistant sheet that wraps the water absorbing body is fixed to the base side of the water absorbing body with a binding band. 2. The nasal cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the water-resistant sheet that wraps the water absorbent is fixed on the base side of the water absorbent with an adhesive having flexibility after curing. The nasal cleaner according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the water-absorbing body is a water-absorbing polymer, and the water-resistant sheet is composed of a nonwoven fabric or a woven fabric having a stretch property insoluble in water, The nasal cleaner, wherein the water-absorbent sheet is made of a tissue paper material.

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