OPN-300 Oxytocin and Autism
This post is about nasal spray drugs and Oxytocin . Monty, aged 12 with ASD, uses a conventional anti-histamine nasal spray and I do sometimes wonder just how much of the drug reaches its target. With inhalers for asthma this is a well known problem and often even adults do not use them correctly; they are proven to work much better when they are fitted with a spacer chamber, that way the drug ends up in your lungs and not stuck to the inside of your mouth. Many adults with asthma and COPD nowadays use spacers. So my interest was drawn to a company called Optinose that is developing drugs for nasal delivery using a novel dispenser. I was particularly surprised that in its small drug pipeline is an oxytocin spray for autism. If you look on the US National Institute of Health website listing clinical trials of oxytocin and autism , you will find that thirty, yes three zero, studies are listed. According to their website, Optinose intend to be the first to bring a product...