Nasal Irrigation and Neti Pot
Saline nasal irrigation is extremely useful to cure a sinusitis or common cold as well as to bring relief to the symptoms of nasal allergy or hay fever. Nasal wash loosens the mucus and reduces swelling.
To make the saline solution, add 1/3 tsp of sea salt to 1 cup of lukewarm water (should taste like tears). Nasal rinse has a very easy form, if you sniff the salt solution up:
- put the lukewarm saline solution in your palm of hand or in a teaspoon,
- plug one nostril
- and sniff the salt solution up.
- Blow your nose gently into a tissue.
- Repeat with the other nostril.
If you have tools for nasal irrigation, like an eye dropper or a clean baby nose syringe you can use them for dropping or shooting up the salt/water solution into your nose.
- Fill the eye dropper or the syringe with the lukewarm saline solution.
- Close one nostril with your thumb,
- tilt your head back (or head upside down).....
- and drop or shoot up the solution into one nostril while you sniff.
- Blow your nose gently.
- Repeat with the other nostril.
One of the most professional ways of nasal lavage is the use of a neti pot.
The neti pot is used in Ayurvedic medicine for nasal irrigation thousands of years. The method of nasal cleansing - known as Neti - is one of the purification techniques. A soothing, gentle stream of salt water, the same concentration as tears, flows through your nose, washing away pollens, mucus and germs. The neti pot looks like a small watering can with a narrow spout. Your neti pot should be right for your nostrils with a smoothly tapered conical tip at the spout end.
A neti pot is filled with lukewarm, salt water and the spout of the pot is inserted into one nostril. The water flows out of the other nostril.
How to do nasal irrigation with a neti pot?
- Fill the pot with lukewarm saline solution.
- Insert the end of the spout to one of your nostrils.
- Tilt your head to the side as shown in the picture.
- Hold the pot slightly above your nose level.
- OPEN your MOUTH wide.
- Keep breathing through your mouth, STAY RELAXED!
- Raise the neti-pot slowly to develop a steady flow of water.
- The stream of water will flow through the nasal cavities into the second nostril and out. While flowing, you may feel the water pass between your eyebrows and through your forehead.
- During the process BREATHE through your MOUTH!
- Reverse the tilt of your head
- and repeat the procedure with the other nostril.
- When you finished, exhale firmly several times.
- Blow your nose gently.
Neti pot
Nasal irrigation usually restores normal nasal and sinus functioning.
There are several different recipes for the nasal rinse solution, but the base for the nasal-wash solution is always lukewarm salt water:
- dissolve in 500ml lukewarm water 1 flat tsp. sea salt (the solution should taste like tears)
- you can give to the saline solution above 1/2 tsp of Sodium Bicarbonate (baking soda)
- or you may give to the saline solution a 1/8 tsp of crushed garlic
- or you might put a few drops of Grapefruit Seed Extract into the saline solution
- or you can add 7-8 drops of 3% Hydrogen Peroxide to 500ml salt water solution
- etc.
Find out your own recipe, appropriate for your individual needs!
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