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What brand of spray are all you sprayers using?
The only one I can find is Sterimar, it works fine and everything but seems to cost £5 for 100ml of salty water. This has to be one of the biggest rip offs ever. It means this slightly salty water is about he same price as 15 year old Bruichladdich, 15yo Laphroaig, 16yo Lagavulin, 18yo Glendfiddich, 15yo Glenfa.......... -
Don't waste your money mate, just blow now and then, its been good enough for me for the last 20 odd years
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- CommentAuthorPieter Claassen
- CommentTimeSep 18th 2008
I use plain water from a tap and mix in one teasponn of table salt and 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda. Use lukewarm water in a 1 litre bottle with a screwdown top, shake up and leave to cool down. You can either pour some of this mix in the cup of your hand and sniff or use a syringe and spray in your nose. This advice was given to many years ago by a docter who operated on my sinusses. I always kave a bottle handy in my bathroom and use about a teacup full at a time. -
I use a neti pot as well, but most of the time really cannot be bothered and just like to reach for a bottle of something. If I do not clean my nose before going to bed I snore like crazy apparently.
Leaving a syringe lying around should work a treat, why did I not think of that? Apostrophes keep bringing up the find thing in Firefox for some reason, typing without them is hard! -
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CommentAuthorSnuff Head
- CommentTimeSep 18th 2008 edited
I use a Neti Pot from time to time, On-Line firm I bought is from sent a small sample of Neti pot salt, this worked well but they charge £5 for a 500g packet, then I would have postage to pay!!! I use a small amount of Sea Salt bought locally at only £1.20 for the same weight. This works just fine for me. Edit 11-40 UTC 19-09-08 -
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No problems on the salt front! I bought something like 3kg a few months ago for not too much from the hippie shop I bought the pot from.
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I just fill an empty saline sprayer with tap water.
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CommentAuthorTroutstroker
- CommentTimeSep 18th 2008
I actually just make my own saline spray.
Here is a recipe:
Combine 1/2 tsp. of sea salt with 1 cup warm water in a bottle with a lid. Add a pinch of baking soda, place the lid on the bottle, and shake. Pour some of the mixture into a nasal spray bottle and you're ready to go. The rest of the mixture can be stored in your medicine cabinet or even in the kitchen so it will be readily available when your spray bottle needs a refill. -
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Nasal spray bottle! Thats the word I was looking for, it's amazing how you (well I) miss these things sometimes.
I have found an even better deal than the Sterimar here. £6 for 20ml! now we are talking about a 34yo bottle of Bruichladdich 1972 Legacy VI! -
Has anybody tried those teapot looking things that they sell in the healthfood stores. I can't remember the funny name. I have talked to a couple of people that swear by them. You use it by turning your head and pouring the solution in one nostril and out the other. It is suppose to clean everything out. They are marketed to help with allergies by washing out the pollen.
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CommentAuthorTroutstroker
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2008
Yeah its whats talked about above, 'neti pot'. They work great for keeping your nose/sinuses in tip top shape. Like a radiator flush for your nose. -
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CommentAuthorSnuff Head
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2008
Yea, Neti Pot. Sorry my spell checker did a bad job on that word :-( -
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I think I will get one next time I'm at Whole Foods
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CommentAuthorSnuff Head
- CommentTimeSep 19th 2008
Jarhog if you get one don't put much salt in on your first try out, You may get the effect of drowning at sea but you soon get used to it. -
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Actualy a neti pot is an old yoga technique there is a whole series of cleaning rituals. Including neti cords same idea as the pot but with a special cord. There is a technique where you swallow a cord and then let it come out the back end on its own. Though my favorite yoga sinus and lung cleaning technique is called kapuli bhati (not spelled right) to really simplify in part you quickly exhale very forcefully and it will knock so much out of your sinuses as well as stale air from the bottom of your lungs (the first time you do this is amazingly shocking). The english translation is the shining skull which you actualy will understand after doing the whole technique.
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Huh?
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CommentAuthorbadbusinessman
- CommentTimeSep 20th 2008
Sutra Neti, where you floss your nose with a long cloth string that goes in one nostril and out your mouth, is what I think Bob is talking about. -
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Yup well one of the things.
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Bob wrote this : " There is a technique where you swallow a cord and then let it come out the back end on its own." Sounds like what happened when my cat ate an audio cassette when I was a kid and we had to put vaseline on her treats to aid in evacuation.
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pretty much the same thing. It helps keep you clean. If you watch the movie crumb his brother maxon (I think I got the name right) is swallowing the cord at one point.
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CommentAuthorbadbusinessman
- CommentTimeSep 20th 2008
I did that once and it hurt like hell. The Neti pot just seems like a better idea.
There's another one of those wacky yoga cleansing rituals where people swallow a really long cloth until it fills their stomach, then they pull it out again covered in stomach goo. -
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Yup. A lot of yoga cleansings rock though. There is one that is really simple works great on constipation you lean forward while standing squze your stomach in tight then press you hand on each thigh a few times alternating thighs.
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Why do you use the saline spray? I just started and today is my first day and don't know why you'd use saline spray ... although its easy enough to get at Walgreens or CVS... I even think I have some around here!
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I don't. Its a matter of taste. It makes sure you don't have snuff just hanging around in your nose. I've noticed it seems to be the most popular among the chaps who hardly touch menthol. Could be my imagination about the menthol thing.
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