This is a known risk for people who rinse their nasal passages with salt water.
I started doing this on a doctor's advice after a long bout of cold and I always boil the water, let it cool down and only then do the thing.
I started doing this on a doctor's advice after a long bout of cold and I always boil the water, let it cool down and only then do the thing.
And then almost nothing the whole day except this feeling remains that something's there in the throat but rarely anything comes out - sometimes some semi-mucus (?) (or just spit - white but slightly thicker than spit - comes out)
I woke up every morning feeling terrible. Since then I made the following changes that have completely changed everything.
1) Got a robot Vacuum with hepa filter that cleans under the bed
2) Got dust mite covers for my pillow etc
3) Got a Hepa filter that runs constantly for both my furnace and my room
4) Installed a dehumidifier that lowers the humidity in the entire house. Dust mites loooove humidity above 50 percent.
Now I wake up feeling pretty decent everyday
It's a treatment, unless you're one of the people it causes frequent nosebleeds in. Ugh.
Also, since it's steroids (speaking as a layman) is it not like something that has lots of side effects? So a daily usage over prolonged periods of time may be undesirable?
The last doctor had also found out (after a CT scan) DNS and when he tried to inset a tiny camera up my nostrils he was not able to do so in one of them (that's when he suggested CT scan).
And my nose rarely runs. I mean it does little bit maybe couple of times a month when I catch common cold but on the daily basis it just doesn't. Also, what kind of specialist should I be approaching? The last doctor I saw was in Otorhinolaryngology. But that was more than a year ago - since then there's been nothing done related to it.
People can live like that forever without any issues. Linked to increased intracranial pressure, empty or partial sella, headaches that improve when laying down.
I had that, had trouble breathing every night, thought it was allergies, rinsed my nose but still every morning woke up with mucus in nose and throat. Metallic taste in mouth.
Only when I started powerlifting and got the headaches, doctors did an MRI, found empty sella, protrusions of brain tissue in sinuses and a quick procedure relieved me of my yearlong miseries that accompany the clogging.
I wake up feeling as fresh as when I was 10 years old.
Adding a HEPA air filter to your bedroom might help.
Washing all your bedding in hot water with allergy safe detergent; mattress protector; deep clean carpets; and always showering before bed would reduce pollen / mite activity.
A few over-the-counter supplements you might try:
* Mucinex D - an expectorant; common name 'guaifenesin'.
* NAC 'N-acetyl cysteine' - an amino acid - loosens mucus, among other benefits.
* Hot saline sinus rinses (ex Neilmed bottle)
I also have HEPA filter on the house HVAC.
I will try HEPA filter in my bedroom (can't do it for the entire house - it's quite big, open, and a shared apartment and not designed in that way really)
Not even regular coffee/tea other than occasional green/oolong/chamomile. Liquor even more in frequent. Normal rice/wheat based food with veggies and lentils on a regular basis. Occasional dairy and meat products. Yes, I do have eggs almost everyday (since almost as long I can remember).
It's a more recent (~1.5 years) phenomenon and I am in early 30s. Before this it just didn't happen at all and suddenly it became a daily thing.
0. https://chopra.com/articles/how-and-why-to-perform-bhastrika...
Any generic brand works, just realize it takes like 10 days to start working, so be patient. Use as little as possible, so I recommend starting with 1 spray a day.
I have a slight chronic sinusitis and I am currently trying a corticosteroid spray too.
Studies seem to say it works against chronic sinusitus. I am not sure how though.
If anyone is reckless enough to do the same, please thoroughly research the dangers of excessive iodine first. It is easy to err.
I never tried it deep in the nose though, only lower nostril. So it could still be higher up. But it hasn’t colonized the lower areas for years. Had it for 5+ years before realizing what it was.
Mind you I have no way of knowing if this is actual medical grade stuff that use in hospitals. But it seemed to work. On multiple mrsa outbreaks too: I had a few instances where it got outside the nose and this got rid of them.
What exactly are you doing with it? I wasn’t quite clear on how you’re going to get it deeper into the nose. I had had the mrsa in the lower nostril so I just used a q tip, but I didn’t get it into the nasal passages. (Nor do I know if it’s meant for such use). I also have congestion at night so I;m interested.
I will say that a jar like this lasts for many uses. If you’re eating honey it’s a small amount, but you don’t need much for topical use.
https://www.amazon.ca/Manukaguard-Medical-Grade-Manuka-Honey...
I would be irrigating the sinuses with it, diluted in warm (distilled!) saline water. I've done this with regular raw honey and haven't been too tempted since.
Edit: I found the following ad via your own link https://www.amazon.ca/MANUKAGUARD-Nasal-Spray-Medical-Grade/...
Manuka nasal spray...
Well....I guess it’s probably not actively destructive then, I guess the sinuses can deal with it. I’m going to look into this, thanks!
So in your case I guess you’re just diluting the honey in water to a certain degree. But the raw honey was uncomfortable as the reviews suggest.
If you’d like to talk more about mrsa/nasal stuff btw, my email is in my profile.
This comes from the traditional way we handled milk as it was fresh and unprocessed.
I then let it cool as usual before washing my nose.
You generally don’t want to bring milk to a boil as it creates a film on top and modifies the taste. Instead, you heat it to 162F / 72C to kill the bacteria and cool it down as quickly as possibly. There isn’t a “traditional” method going back generations, since it was only in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur invented pasteurization.
We know very well that you theoretically just need to cross the 68°C boundary to cook the proteins of the bacteria.
But if like me you happen to have been raised where the family had cows, you also know very well that in the morning at 4am, you do not play Pasteur. You want fast and secure.
Theory vs. practice.
people in many countries have died from this
it's very rare. However, you don't want to be the poster child for it
It sounds ridiculous, but people also die from drinking water.
The key difference is understanding that it’s not the “water”, it’s what’s in the water.
As an interesting aside; this is also why water kills electrical components, pure water is not a good conductive. But what’s in the water is.
It sounds discussing, but urine is usually quite pure (although not sterile as is the common myth) and it has the right temperature and salinity.
You are probably mixing up Neti and Amaroli.
https://www.aypsite.org/319.html ( see under heading Using Urine with Nasal Wash)
Could you please provide some source?
Yes. There is zero evidence to support any of its claims, nobody should do that. I just was pointing out that it exists, that it is a thing as an answer to the parent comment.