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got friends that use both the nettie pot and the squeeze bottle...
sinus doc put me on the squeeze bottle after some minor nasal surgery a couple of years ago...

various friends and acquaintances encourage me to use additives of either colloidal silver, or hydrogen peroxide to help fight sinus infections...

anybody got a clue about this stuff???

My wife uses silver shield (trade name I think) for most everything with good results. We use the squeeze bottle periodically, but haven't done the two together.

Asked our doc about silver additives when there was some pretty nasty sinus issues going through our family.
He said saline rinses are the recommemded just because the ph issue with the sinuses.

He called it the "liquid snot flush" and advised not to use silver products due to the healing properties it has, said it could cause excess cartilage/tissue growth in the septum and sinus cavity if they are inflamed or even from excess amounts use.

He did say silver helps helps the inflamation quickly clear up once the infection is gone.

Basically he said in my terms: "Don't use it unless I tell you to use it and deem it necessary, until then it might hurt a little bit longer but it will go away..."

So I suffered

That's all I have for input

Paul

Oh yeah.... big help in my case.

If you want something antimicrobial, xylitol is a good choice, about 1/4 tsp per rinse bottle. It's a tree sugar, so you can also use it on your cereal in the morning. You can buy all you'll ever use in a lifetime for around $5 at a health food store.

If your tap water is well chlorinated, use distilled.

Wouldn't go near colloidal silver. Seen the pictures of guy that used it and he's a very pretty purple.

Just a teaspoon of salt added to an 8 ounce glass of warm water will serve you well.

For impacted sinuses have been known to use and old home remedy my mom taught me and that is to snuff warm salt water.

I use the squeeze bottle with a saline solution. Just this week I picked up a nasal spray called "Sinus Buster" and that stuff is amazing! It's made from peppers so it burns for a minute but it will open you up!

A netty pot? with warm salt water, seems to help.

put your drugs in one of these:

http://www.neti-pot.com/

Personally don't use it. Probably should but I can't get past the similarities of a sinus rinse compared to waterboarding

ENT doc put me on to a product called Alkalol after he worked on my deviated septum. It's basically a snot buster, seems to have some eucalyptus in it.

Paul

Wife uses Sinucleanse - says it helps a LOT..

Neti pot is great. I use one frequently. Sometimes it's nice to use it just if you feel like you are starting to get a cold. Cleans things out and makes it less likely to turn into a sinus infection.

Add a quarter teaspoon of non-iodized salt and the same of baking soda to buffer the solution. Take Mucinex to thin out the mucus.

Second the mucinex thing too. I buy the special buffered saline packs that they sell 100 for $10 to use with the pot, makes it easy.

I use the squeeze bottle during allergy season. I haven't had a sinus infection since I started using it.

Years back following sinus surgery the doc told me to make it a habit of sinus flushing and to do it regularly. Takes a little getting used to but alls you do is while in the shower, cup your hands, fill them with warm water and suck it in through the nose and blow back and forth, doing it several times. It'll loosen brick mortar and I've not had a 'head cold' in many, many yrs. Simple and effective, works especially well during the allergy seasons.

Neti pot.

I call it a snot pot, but it helps tremendously with head colds and allergies. I wear a dust mask when hauling hay, and then rinse with the snot pot.

Leave a little bit of saline in your nose and tip your head back to hydrate your sinuses and loosen the mucus. Then get to the box of tissues!

LOL Picked some of that up on a friends recommendation,Did I read the label to see whats in it No, I just did a big spray up my nose like I do with the saline solution,Holy cow , about took the top of my head off!! It was worse than any wasabi blast I've ever experienced.

I 've been using salt and little peroxide, will fiz if you have any bugs in there