azurelunatic | Wow, I can breathe.

The sounds of someone preparing a glass of salt water, then deliberately partially inhaling it, are amusing.

tiel pointed me in the direction of this interesting technique for dealing with allergies, and I must say, it's interesting. The proper technique has a bit more in the way of implements (you pour the saline up one nostril and let it pour out the other, with your head at such an angle so it doesn't get into the back of your throat, and gravity gets to take care of it pouring out the other nostril) but sticking your nose in a glass of salt water and inhaling carefully and gently seems to do a great deal of interesting things, most of them relating to you then letting salt water sputter into the sink when you pull your nose out of the glass.

Arizona is both bad and good for my sinuses. Good: I do not often have them totally clogged by evil goo. Bad: the evil goo that would otherwise have been clogging them has been dehydrated, and clings to the inside.

Thus, water up my nose. This may actually turn the trick of making my nose both clear of yuck, and have the inside moisturized.

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they also make, for hydration emergencies on the go, nose sprays that are simply saline in a nose misting bottle.
they were my best friend during pregnancy while my poor sinuses were still trying to deal with the fact that i had moved from the naturally nose-hydrating tropics into the dusty, dry land that is Texas.

Oooh, ow.

I've never been pregnant, but I can only imagine your nose's agonies.

Your trick sounds good-- I'll ahave to try it.

The saline nose sprays do help, but sometimes not quite enough...

Fair warning: it does wear off after a day or so for me, and I do have the disconcerting habit of sneezing diluted saline snot for about half an hour afterward...

The nose in a glass thing, I think, would give me the same worries that the neti pot did, initially: the idea of salt waler winding up in the back of your throat.

I had the same sneezing problem, but I'd rather sneeze salt water and be able to breathe then not.

Salt water winding up in the back of my throat can be dealt with. I, unlike my blonder half, have a strong stomach and a gag reflex that is not horribly touchy. I did get this; it did not faze me, as being able to breathe is an incredible plus.

Handkerchiefs are good. Very good.

I did wake up with the feeling that I'd cried myself to sleep last night; I did track that down to salt-residue-in-back-of-nose.

Now...that's a problem I didn't have. The best part of the process, for me, was waking up the next day and having a compleately clear nose. Try less salt, next time?

Are you using sea salt or table salt?

Less salt. We've got table salt, so that's what I used.

I tried it with straight water the first time, and that stung like anything; salt feels much better. Less damage to cell membranes.

If you can get your hands on some, try using sea salt, maybe. They package the stuff specfically for sinus treatments and give it a fancy name, but its really just sea salt, so I wonder if it might have slightly different healing properties then table salt.

Less additives: just plain salt rather than dietarily balanced and nutrient-added salt, I should think; table salt is iodized and anti-clumping treated, et cetera. The idea with the saline solution is so the salt levels are the same as blood salt, of course, so the cells do not have hissyfits over plain water when the water tries to come the hell in to equalize the salt levels, since there's more salt in there than there is out here.

That's why plain water hurts so very much. Hm, next time I get water up my nose, I should rinse it out with salt water...

snorted salt water is also good for sinus infections.... as is colloidal silver.

Hm, I'll have to remember that when I come back home. Have not been getting sinus infections here.

Wow, I can breathe.

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