Sinus rinse: should I continue?

Question

Last week my family had a cold. I never got the cold. We then went to Wal Mart and I purchaseda NeilMed sinus rinse bottle (a Neti Pot alternative) just to try it out.

So I tried it out and the next day I got the cold. I believe it was NOT due to the bottle and I believe that I got it from my family.

After I got finished with my cold and had no runny nose. I had lots of unusual snot I've never had. It was foamy. It was also white (due to the foaminess). So I stopped using the bottle for 2 days. Snot is still coming out my nose and when I blow my right nostril, my right side of the brain gets a headache and my upper teeth hurts (I guess from the pressure). And I am getting tired (I guess from the brief headache). So now I am taking nasal decongestant.

Should I try the nasal rinse bottle one more time?

Note: I have very good hygiene with the bottle.

Answer 1

I have a NeilMed sinus rinse bottle too. Should you try it one more time? I don't think it would hurt.

I hate getting colds. Here is a link to some information I picked up on how to prevent a cold or the flu.

Answer 2

My husband uses this to keep from getting bronchitis, and I use to to cure sinus infections. THere are many kinds of bacteria that live in the sinuses, and this gets rid of all the bad ones!.This is the only thing that really helped me --- my Dr. told me about a sinus wash that will kill bacteria.

you need

distilled water

sea salt

liquid chlorophyll and colloidal silver from the health food store.

in a glass mix 1/4 cup water with a pinch of salt and heat to body temperature.

add 5 drops each silver and chlorophyll and mix.

using a large dropper (like one used for infant medication) drop 2 full droppersfull into one side of the nose while laying down.

Turn the head and let it drain out the other nostril. Be sure to have paper towels handy.

The silver kills the bacteria and there are several hundred kind that can live in the sinus cavities and anti biotics don't get rid of them all.

Do this twice a day for a week, mixing up the mixture fresh each time.

Then do it once a week for maintenance.

There is nothing in this that will hurt you, and it cured me.

I do not have to take claritin, or antibiotics anymore.

best wishes

Answer 3

The foamy party is a bit weird, and I'm not sure what's causing that.  Odds are it comes from the differences between the neilmed bottle and a normal neti pot.

That said, all my experience comes with neti pots (since I had a chronic sinus infection).  Assuming I can cross apply what I learned from it to here, I believe I can explain to you what's going on.

When mucus builds up in someone's sinuses, some of it solidifies and cakes onto it, while other parts remain liquid (and each causes different types of minor problems).

When you start exposing the sinus to (presumably salt) water that's being flushed through it, all that stuff which has accumulated to begin dislodging (and this can often start going after the caked on dried out stuff).

Unfortunately, there is normally a lot of stuff which has caked on and attached, and in my case it took over a month of long flushing sessions to completely get rid of it (at which point I had taken out what appeared to be over a gallon of mucus).  When I did it, the actual removal of snot was often unpleasant, I would get headaches from the pressure changes inside my head, and it took a lot of time and work to get rid of everything.  However, when it was finally done (and I was quite frankly awed at just how much mucus was there to be removed) I felt a lot better than I had at the start (and got sick/mucusly less).

In your specific case, you opened the flood gates to letting some of this mucus release.  If you wait a bit, it will eventually re dry/harden/cake on and you'll stop having most of the sinus discharges (and rather just feel crappy at times, and occasionally have the sinuses dump mucus when they are overloaded).  Alternatively, you could commit to solving the problem and going through a bit of unpleasantness, but I must forwarn you, if your situation in anyway resembled mine it's a lot of work.

Other than that, there are minor surgical procedures for people who have sinus problems (they thread and inflatable balloon into your sinus and then inflate it to reopen the drainage tube), and in the neti pot beyond using salt water, I also experimented with hydrogen peroxide (which needs to be at a LOW concentration).  Both of those can help if you want to look into using a neti pot or whatever method appeals to you to solve this problem.  However, as I said before, you need to decide if it's worth it to you.

Hope that helps!

Answer 4

mix a capsule of cayenne pepper with a teaspoonful of golden seal and a half a teaspoon of dryed garlic.Snort it up your nose and make sure you have a water bottle with you.Just drink lots of water.Soon you will blow your nose really good and in a half hour you will feel like a new person.I talked to a registered nurse about it and she said it was safe and would probly prevent my getting a sinus infection.I did this myself yesterday.