Neti Pot
Using a neti pot or some other similar nasal irrigation system can be helpful in fighting a variety of health problems. On nasal irrigation, Wikipedia states:
According to its advocates, nasal irrigation promotes good sinus and nasal health. Patients with chronic sinusitis including symptoms of facial pain, headache, halitosis, cough, anterior rhinorrhea (watery discharge) and nasal congestion often find nasal irrigation to provide effective relief. In published studies, “daily hypertonic saline nasal irrigation improves sinus-related quality of life, decreases symptoms, and decreases medication use in patients with frequent sinusitis”, and irrigation is recommended as an adjunctive treatment for chronic sinonasal symptoms.
I have found that using a neti pot has helped relieve my own sinusitis, congestion and provided relief from allergies and recommend it to friends and family quite often. Over the years I have tried both store-bought and homemade neti solutions. Both work great in my opinion however, some people are worried about purity of homemade solutions. I have found that for me personally, a home made remedy works perfectly fine. Read on for instructions on how I make my own neti salt mixture:
Neti salt is fairly simple and should be. I only use pure salt (with no added anti-caking agents or iodine) and pure baking soda as a buffer agent. I use the following simple recipe: continue reading…
