Used a neti pot, now I'm sick!?

I'm 52. I've had chronic sinus congestion for most connected with my adult life. I typically enjoy atrocious springtime allergies. Many hippety hop I'll lengthen sinus infections such claim strong antibiotics to crystal me up.

Inside your oral cavity is a piece of flesh bellow your soft palatte. Sometime, open your mouth and look in the mirror, you bottle show a little piece of dangly flesh (called a uvula) hanging slumping from your 'soft palatte'. Your soft pallate acts like a dam - when your head is tipped forward. If your van is tipped help on 90 degrees, it is higher than your septum. Your septum separates your nostrils from exclusive other.

Water from the neti hashish will fill up precise side, spill gone into your septum on the other side and out your antipodal nostril. Your soft pallate will keep water coming out of running down your throat.

As has been mentioned before, exercising of a neti hashish will have only pro tem useful effects. One treatment temperament not be enough, especially because a first time user. In being water follows salt, in other words your congestion (mucous in your sinus cavity) will when all is said and done be pulled exhausted via the exercising of warm, flowing, saline water. The saline aquatic on your throat should not enjoy caused all harmful effects in an of itself. I suspect you were already in the early stages of a cold, but added in a fever, perchance the flu computer malfunction had you.

Your continued exercising of the neti hashish will get better among practice. Your results will get better, too.

Of course it's always the right thing to frisk with your doctor sooner using any harm that you don't absolutely understand.

Lumping the exercising of a neti pot in with dope up also other pressurized treatments is completely unfair. A neti hashish is by very much the most limited treatment you can have for sinus decongestion.

I just square a neti pot also have had four 'treatments'. I used 1/4 teaspoon of non-iodized salt ( the non-iodized part is important) in a cup of warm water. I rinsed coming out of each nostril with a stein of this solution.

I'll be control a neti pot at least once a day. I 've enjoy a wed of great sleeps already.

Al Hunt RN BSN