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What one do you take? I currently take allergy tablets every day and would love something to just help it

Fluticasone changed my life, didn’t need allergy tablets, as it attacked the source.

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.

Which symptoms did you have and what is the underlying cause?

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.

Anecdotes from my personal peanut gallery: Presumably after undergoing several adversarial attempts at amateur facial reconstruction in my earlier years, I've since endured persistent sinusoidal mysery, most notably an unreasonable susceptibility to colds. I tried many rational things which failed. However, it has been a (probably) irrational concoction that I've settled on, for 5 years now. A squeeze bottle of inert saline solution is thusly squozen and drip-fed a clean, high quality Lugol's solution (liquid iodine). At times, an essential oil is added too, eg peppermint, but rarely. At the risk of excessive iodine intake, my sinuses are now tolerable. Having doubts about this plebeian prescription, I encountered in my cursory research a patent by a prominent pharmaceutical company which consisted of the same recipe, but specifically for the "decolonization" of MRSA from the nasal passages. Considering that many folks now sport MRSA in their nasal passages, perhaps there's something to it. I've yet to settle on a suitable biofilm disruptor, but manuka honey is on my list.

If anyone is reckless enough to do the same, please thoroughly research the dangers of excessive iodine first. It is easy to err.

Attempts at facial reconstruction? What does this mean?

Semi involuntary pugilism.

Why not say boxing or "fight" ?

There is a certain quality to making the world more poetic. I like it.

Username checks out! :)

Aka punched in the face.

I had a persistent mrsa infection. Manuka honey worked better than prescription topicals. There are studies about the use of it for mrsa.

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.

Did you find that a UMF or MGO rating was important and if so, what was it? A lot of the manuka honey I see is quite low, and the few with higher ratings certainly reflect it in the pricing.

To be honest I’m not sure. I bought this medical grade manuka honey. That seems to be a thing, and it is sterilized for wound use.

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...

"What exactly are you doing with it?"

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...

Wow that’s quite a negative review haha. But also some positives from the foreign reviews.

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.

I am so trying that. I have to blow my nose quite often everyday and my nasal passages get frequently blocked especially when lying down trying to sleep. Fortunately, mucinex can fix that allowing me to sleep but fixing the source sounds better.

Try rinsing daily with a Nasopure. Has worked wonders on my allergies and keeps my nasal passages clear 100% of the time.

I mean the allergy tablets are attacking the source which is the allergic reaction just not very effectively. Fluticasone is very effectively and directly treating the symptom which is inflamed tissue in the nasal passage.

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