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Hey Jak4, if you have a stuffy or runny sinus or sore throat going on, I highly recommend doing a homemade sinus lavage.
If you don't have a NeilMed Sinus bottle or Neti pot, use a gravy boat, a gravy strainer, a sippy cup or any cup with a spout and gently sniff up some warmed distilled water with some sea salt or Himalayan salt in it. Sniff in slowly, warm salt water goes up, washes the sinus, and rolls down the throat into your mouth.
Spit it out. Repeat on other side. Sniff in, spit out. Do this until you feel the urge to blow your nose. After blowing your nose, do it again. After the second blow, use some Q-tips to swab out your nostrils. You'll find your sinus and throat feel much better.
You can repeat this as often as you want. I recommend 2x per day until flu/cold is over.
Good luck and I hope you feel better soon.
I call it a face enema
Well that is not a pleasant image.
I had the same thing happened with one of those NeilMed bottles and then again with my modified gravy boat. It was then that I figured out I was doing it wrong.
You can't strongly sniff when trying to introduce the warm salty water. That will bring it up into your ears and upper sinus. Don't do that.
Stand over the sink and hold the spout up to the side of your nose with your head slightly looking up and then ever so gently sniff it in. You will see it is very pleasant and there is none of that 'I've just inhaled water up into my brain' sensation. Try it, this way. You'll see.