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Nasal Saline And Chronic Sinusitis
One of the most frequent problems I see each week is “the chronic sinus infection”. A chronic infection is one that lasts for several weeks. While the end point looks about the same regardless of the cause, there are very different causes.
Is it Better to Sniff?
Recently I have read an argument that has been promoted that to get the benefit of using a nasal saline solution in the nose, you have to push the solution into the nasal passages under pressure. The folks who promote this idea think this is far better than just sniffing the nasal saline solution or using it as a gentle mist spray.
Whole Person Health
Almost everyone you talk to will think that health is very important and that it can not be replaced by anything. It is a wonderful thing to be healthy. However, the majority of people do not act as though they value their health. Instead, they seem to believe that they have some right to be always healthy and when suddenly they become ill, they act as though some terrible injustice has been done to them.
Can Saline Nasal Spray Help You Run Faster?
So is this a joke? Is there really a connection between running faster and having “clean nose”? I know it does sound like a joke but actually there is a very direct connection between Saline Nasal Spray and being able to run faster.
Lo Technology Nasal Saline Spray
Everybody loves to shop, right? Well not all of us, but when there is a need we sure do like to have a store to go into. When you go into a store for problems with your poor nose you will unfortunately be faced with a lot of confusing choices. A lot of these treatments are designed to somehow get a nasal saline solution into your nose. Most commonly this is delivered to the nose as a nasal saline spray.
Nutrition and Nasal Health
The purpose of this article is to put a little context in the articles that have focused on having a healthy nose and healthy sinuses through nasal saline spray or nasal saline solution. The nose, after all, does not exist by itself. But being part of the body it can surely draw a lot of attention to itself when things aren’t going well.
Saline Nasal Spray- Better to Sniff?
One of the people I saw today asked me about the different ways to deliver saline solution into the nose. She wanted to know why it was better to sniff it from the palm of the hand rather than using a squirt bottle to spray the solution into the nose.
Does Nasal Saline Solution Make a Difference
This article is a review of a recent research article that looked at whether it made any difference in spraying the nose versus irrigating the nose with a nasal saline solution. The condition that was being studied was chronic sinusitis.
Nasal Saline Solution and Dusty Air
Unfortunately in our day and age the air we breath is not very clean. In many places it’s just plain dirty. Now dirty air is more than just a nuisance. It’s a real bother. This junk that’s in the air we breath often causes an irritation to the nose and that makes other things happen like swelling up of the tissue.
How Nasal Saline Spray Can Help Prevent Asthma
At first glance it may not be apparent why there would be a connection between a nasal saline solution and asthma. Here is the connection: asthma is aggravated by chronic sinus infections. Sometimes asthma is actually caused by a chronic sinus infection. How does this happen? Well actually we don’t know why this connection exists. But it does. What we do know is that in somebody who has a tendency toward asthma they will have an aggravation of the symptoms of asthma with any type of sinus infection, acute or chronic.
