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Right now there are no effective hygiene products for nasal area. Something like a harmless mist that instantly drains all the mucus from the sinuses (along with all the bacterial/viral load that cause health problems and bad breath) would be real nice. Again, some sort of mouthwash that instantly dissolves tonsil stones would be even better :) But such items are currently absent from the roster of hygienic products. Safe products like these would make someone an overnight billionaire or make stocks of Johnson & Johnson / Colgate - Palmolive jump higher:)

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> Something like a harmless mist that instantly drains all the mucus from the sinuses (along with all the bacterial/viral load that cause health problems and bad breath) would be real nice.

This might sounds too low-tech (and can't be patented), but simple nasal irrigation with a lukewarm isotonic saline solution works pretty well for me in this department.

>This might sounds too low-tech (and can't be patented), but simple nasal irrigation with a lukewarm isotonic saline solution works pretty well for me in this department

In terms of building habits and routines, I think the trouble with nasal irrigation is that it takes too much work to prep the water. I do it during allergy season, but only because my hay fever is bad enough that the relief is a big help. If you want people to make a habit out of it in the absence of having their sinuses assaulted by trees, it would be good if there was a way to have water for your neti pot as easily available as toothpaste is.

You'd need a gizmo that can quickly and easily take an adequate quantity of water, sanitize it, bring it to temperature, and add the appropriate quantity of salt to make it isotonic without too much effort on the part of the user.

Check out Arm & Hammer Simply Saline. It's basically exactly what you are looking for. The water is room temperature, but I have not found any issue with that.

Seems about right, but that I imagine that would wind up being really expensive if you make a habit out of it. It's showing up as $15-$20 for 12oz. . .

I'm shocked by this price. In Serbia you can buy prepared 0.9% NaCl solution for $1 for 18oz.

Maybe in the US it has to have medical certification, and in Serbia the seller is allowed/smart enough to just get it through food certification?

Excellent question! I am definitely not an expert in medical and food certification. I might be wrong in this case (and I'm often wrong anyway). Yet I believe the manufacturer has medical certification because I've seen the same NaCl solution bottles used in infusion therapy in hospitals, on the label is printed "medicine" at least twice and the manufacturer is one of the largest domestic producer and exporter of medicines in Serbia.

I deal with tonsilloths a lot and my solution is gargling hydrogen peroxide mixed with water, it isnt perfect though

3 options to drain your sinuses.

1) Eat a chili pepper. As hot as you can handle. The point is to get you perspiring and salivating. Will completely drain your sinuses in the next 5 mins.

2) Aerobic exercise or a run for 10 mins.

3) Inhaling steam.

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