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Advice regarding sinus rinses

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Faust

New member
Ok I know many of you do salt water sinus rinses, and I don't, and since i'm battling CF sinus crap, I'm asking for opinions.


I want to start a regimen for before and after work. I'm very aware there are basically sinus douche kits out there, but do others make their own solution to save money? Or just go to walgreens and get a bulk rinse that is kind of cheap? My mom used to do salt water sinus rinses all the time, and did one for me once, but it was pointless back then...Now it's not.


So any advice? Product recommendations? As it is now, i'm a tad stretched thin due to many other things I do, so a cheap (as long as effective) avenue would be appreciated.


Also I take it you just open your throat, stick nozzle of shooter in nostril, and fire away and let the stuff come out your mouth?


Thanks.
 
F

Faust

New member
Ok I know many of you do salt water sinus rinses, and I don't, and since i'm battling CF sinus crap, I'm asking for opinions.


I want to start a regimen for before and after work. I'm very aware there are basically sinus douche kits out there, but do others make their own solution to save money? Or just go to walgreens and get a bulk rinse that is kind of cheap? My mom used to do salt water sinus rinses all the time, and did one for me once, but it was pointless back then...Now it's not.


So any advice? Product recommendations? As it is now, i'm a tad stretched thin due to many other things I do, so a cheap (as long as effective) avenue would be appreciated.


Also I take it you just open your throat, stick nozzle of shooter in nostril, and fire away and let the stuff come out your mouth?


Thanks.
 
F

Faust

New member
Ok I know many of you do salt water sinus rinses, and I don't, and since i'm battling CF sinus crap, I'm asking for opinions.


I want to start a regimen for before and after work. I'm very aware there are basically sinus douche kits out there, but do others make their own solution to save money? Or just go to walgreens and get a bulk rinse that is kind of cheap? My mom used to do salt water sinus rinses all the time, and did one for me once, but it was pointless back then...Now it's not.


So any advice? Product recommendations? As it is now, i'm a tad stretched thin due to many other things I do, so a cheap (as long as effective) avenue would be appreciated.


Also I take it you just open your throat, stick nozzle of shooter in nostril, and fire away and let the stuff come out your mouth?


Thanks.
 
F

Faust

New member
Ok I know many of you do salt water sinus rinses, and I don't, and since i'm battling CF sinus crap, I'm asking for opinions.


I want to start a regimen for before and after work. I'm very aware there are basically sinus douche kits out there, but do others make their own solution to save money? Or just go to walgreens and get a bulk rinse that is kind of cheap? My mom used to do salt water sinus rinses all the time, and did one for me once, but it was pointless back then...Now it's not.


So any advice? Product recommendations? As it is now, i'm a tad stretched thin due to many other things I do, so a cheap (as long as effective) avenue would be appreciated.


Also I take it you just open your throat, stick nozzle of shooter in nostril, and fire away and let the stuff come out your mouth?


Thanks.
 
F

Faust

New member
Ok I know many of you do salt water sinus rinses, and I don't, and since i'm battling CF sinus crap, I'm asking for opinions.


I want to start a regimen for before and after work. I'm very aware there are basically sinus douche kits out there, but do others make their own solution to save money? Or just go to walgreens and get a bulk rinse that is kind of cheap? My mom used to do salt water sinus rinses all the time, and did one for me once, but it was pointless back then...Now it's not.


So any advice? Product recommendations? As it is now, i'm a tad stretched thin due to many other things I do, so a cheap (as long as effective) avenue would be appreciated.


Also I take it you just open your throat, stick nozzle of shooter in nostril, and fire away and let the stuff come out your mouth?


Thanks.
 
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fr3ak

Guest
This is what I am using:

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.enttech.com.au/
">http://www.enttech.com.au/
</a>

I am using the post operative one on advisement from my CF dr

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.enttech.com.au/prod_flo.shtml
">http://www.enttech.com.au/prod_flo.shtml
</a>

after years of doing sinus washes I found out I was doing it wrong, well I suppose you can't really do it wrong but I was using a 20ml syringe full of home made sea salt solution and shot it up the snoze while blocking the other side, just letting the water come back out...

But this particular Douche thingy you get a bottle with it, and the way I do it now which I have been told is the right way, is I shove the bottle spout up one side and squirt the bottle for what seems like eternity, I literally fill up the sinus cavity and once full it starts to come out the other side... after I have done it a couple of times I swap sides and repeat... I also use warm water seems to help loosen it up better...

For me it has worked brilliantly as post tx my sinus's have become a lot worse and I have been told that the only thing to work will be surgery, but I am not going down that path....

You can make up your own solution of sea salt and bi carb which is what I used prior, the bottle makes a huge difference for me as I can fill the sinus cavity up which washes the whole cavity as apposed to just the nose cannal and the small amount of sinus cavity a syringe would reach...

Anyway hope it helps!
 
F

fr3ak

Guest
This is what I am using:

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.enttech.com.au/
">http://www.enttech.com.au/
</a>

I am using the post operative one on advisement from my CF dr

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.enttech.com.au/prod_flo.shtml
">http://www.enttech.com.au/prod_flo.shtml
</a>

after years of doing sinus washes I found out I was doing it wrong, well I suppose you can't really do it wrong but I was using a 20ml syringe full of home made sea salt solution and shot it up the snoze while blocking the other side, just letting the water come back out...

But this particular Douche thingy you get a bottle with it, and the way I do it now which I have been told is the right way, is I shove the bottle spout up one side and squirt the bottle for what seems like eternity, I literally fill up the sinus cavity and once full it starts to come out the other side... after I have done it a couple of times I swap sides and repeat... I also use warm water seems to help loosen it up better...

For me it has worked brilliantly as post tx my sinus's have become a lot worse and I have been told that the only thing to work will be surgery, but I am not going down that path....

You can make up your own solution of sea salt and bi carb which is what I used prior, the bottle makes a huge difference for me as I can fill the sinus cavity up which washes the whole cavity as apposed to just the nose cannal and the small amount of sinus cavity a syringe would reach...

Anyway hope it helps!
 
F

fr3ak

Guest
This is what I am using:

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.enttech.com.au/
">http://www.enttech.com.au/
</a>

I am using the post operative one on advisement from my CF dr

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.enttech.com.au/prod_flo.shtml
">http://www.enttech.com.au/prod_flo.shtml
</a>

after years of doing sinus washes I found out I was doing it wrong, well I suppose you can't really do it wrong but I was using a 20ml syringe full of home made sea salt solution and shot it up the snoze while blocking the other side, just letting the water come back out...

But this particular Douche thingy you get a bottle with it, and the way I do it now which I have been told is the right way, is I shove the bottle spout up one side and squirt the bottle for what seems like eternity, I literally fill up the sinus cavity and once full it starts to come out the other side... after I have done it a couple of times I swap sides and repeat... I also use warm water seems to help loosen it up better...

For me it has worked brilliantly as post tx my sinus's have become a lot worse and I have been told that the only thing to work will be surgery, but I am not going down that path....

You can make up your own solution of sea salt and bi carb which is what I used prior, the bottle makes a huge difference for me as I can fill the sinus cavity up which washes the whole cavity as apposed to just the nose cannal and the small amount of sinus cavity a syringe would reach...

Anyway hope it helps!
 
F

fr3ak

Guest
This is what I am using:

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.enttech.com.au/
">http://www.enttech.com.au/
</a>

I am using the post operative one on advisement from my CF dr

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.enttech.com.au/prod_flo.shtml
">http://www.enttech.com.au/prod_flo.shtml
</a>

after years of doing sinus washes I found out I was doing it wrong, well I suppose you can't really do it wrong but I was using a 20ml syringe full of home made sea salt solution and shot it up the snoze while blocking the other side, just letting the water come back out...

But this particular Douche thingy you get a bottle with it, and the way I do it now which I have been told is the right way, is I shove the bottle spout up one side and squirt the bottle for what seems like eternity, I literally fill up the sinus cavity and once full it starts to come out the other side... after I have done it a couple of times I swap sides and repeat... I also use warm water seems to help loosen it up better...

For me it has worked brilliantly as post tx my sinus's have become a lot worse and I have been told that the only thing to work will be surgery, but I am not going down that path....

You can make up your own solution of sea salt and bi carb which is what I used prior, the bottle makes a huge difference for me as I can fill the sinus cavity up which washes the whole cavity as apposed to just the nose cannal and the small amount of sinus cavity a syringe would reach...

Anyway hope it helps!
 
F

fr3ak

Guest
This is what I am using:

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.enttech.com.au/
">http://www.enttech.com.au/
</a>

I am using the post operative one on advisement from my CF dr

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.enttech.com.au/prod_flo.shtml
">http://www.enttech.com.au/prod_flo.shtml
</a>

after years of doing sinus washes I found out I was doing it wrong, well I suppose you can't really do it wrong but I was using a 20ml syringe full of home made sea salt solution and shot it up the snoze while blocking the other side, just letting the water come back out...

But this particular Douche thingy you get a bottle with it, and the way I do it now which I have been told is the right way, is I shove the bottle spout up one side and squirt the bottle for what seems like eternity, I literally fill up the sinus cavity and once full it starts to come out the other side... after I have done it a couple of times I swap sides and repeat... I also use warm water seems to help loosen it up better...

For me it has worked brilliantly as post tx my sinus's have become a lot worse and I have been told that the only thing to work will be surgery, but I am not going down that path....

You can make up your own solution of sea salt and bi carb which is what I used prior, the bottle makes a huge difference for me as I can fill the sinus cavity up which washes the whole cavity as apposed to just the nose cannal and the small amount of sinus cavity a syringe would reach...

Anyway hope it helps!
 
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moxie1

Guest
I use the Grossan Hydro-Pulse. Check out nationalallergy.com? to see it. It costs $99.00, but they have an insurance reimbursement form to get your doc to fill out. Mine paid for it. It works great! I use their stuff too, but it's a little pricey. I'm sure you could make your own solution to use in the machine. BTW, it pulses when you use it, to make it more like your own cilia in sweeping out debris. I haven't had a sinus infection in the 2-3 years I've owned it. Previously, I was getting several a year. I have also never had sinus surgery although I'm sure I was headed in that direction.
 
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moxie1

Guest
I use the Grossan Hydro-Pulse. Check out nationalallergy.com? to see it. It costs $99.00, but they have an insurance reimbursement form to get your doc to fill out. Mine paid for it. It works great! I use their stuff too, but it's a little pricey. I'm sure you could make your own solution to use in the machine. BTW, it pulses when you use it, to make it more like your own cilia in sweeping out debris. I haven't had a sinus infection in the 2-3 years I've owned it. Previously, I was getting several a year. I have also never had sinus surgery although I'm sure I was headed in that direction.
 
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moxie1

Guest
I use the Grossan Hydro-Pulse. Check out nationalallergy.com? to see it. It costs $99.00, but they have an insurance reimbursement form to get your doc to fill out. Mine paid for it. It works great! I use their stuff too, but it's a little pricey. I'm sure you could make your own solution to use in the machine. BTW, it pulses when you use it, to make it more like your own cilia in sweeping out debris. I haven't had a sinus infection in the 2-3 years I've owned it. Previously, I was getting several a year. I have also never had sinus surgery although I'm sure I was headed in that direction.
 
M

moxie1

Guest
I use the Grossan Hydro-Pulse. Check out nationalallergy.com? to see it. It costs $99.00, but they have an insurance reimbursement form to get your doc to fill out. Mine paid for it. It works great! I use their stuff too, but it's a little pricey. I'm sure you could make your own solution to use in the machine. BTW, it pulses when you use it, to make it more like your own cilia in sweeping out debris. I haven't had a sinus infection in the 2-3 years I've owned it. Previously, I was getting several a year. I have also never had sinus surgery although I'm sure I was headed in that direction.
 
M

moxie1

Guest
I use the Grossan Hydro-Pulse. Check out nationalallergy.com? to see it. It costs $99.00, but they have an insurance reimbursement form to get your doc to fill out. Mine paid for it. It works great! I use their stuff too, but it's a little pricey. I'm sure you could make your own solution to use in the machine. BTW, it pulses when you use it, to make it more like your own cilia in sweeping out debris. I haven't had a sinus infection in the 2-3 years I've owned it. Previously, I was getting several a year. I have also never had sinus surgery although I'm sure I was headed in that direction.
 
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Marjolein

New member
You can always boil water and put salt in that.. You boil that water, let it cool of. Then you put the salt in it. A teaspoon (those small ones) salt, not with a bump of salt on it but flattened otherwise it is too much in one glass of water (250 ml). Hope that makes sence hehe, english is not my first language so don't know how to explain it that well.

Get a syringe. i have 2 of 20 ml that i wash in the dishes and i boil them too.
I think i use about 100 ml in total per side. Usually 40 ml one side, 40 ml other and that again. Last time 20 ml both sides.

I do them ones or sometimes more times i day, depends on how i feel.

You can rinse you sinusses with te syringe but tilting your head to the side, so one ear is up the other is down. Then slowly push the water in the upper nostril (sp?) and it will come out through the other side.

The should be effective and it's cheap.

I have irrigation solution now from the pharmacy so don't make my own salt water but i have done that in the past.
 
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Marjolein

New member
You can always boil water and put salt in that.. You boil that water, let it cool of. Then you put the salt in it. A teaspoon (those small ones) salt, not with a bump of salt on it but flattened otherwise it is too much in one glass of water (250 ml). Hope that makes sence hehe, english is not my first language so don't know how to explain it that well.

Get a syringe. i have 2 of 20 ml that i wash in the dishes and i boil them too.
I think i use about 100 ml in total per side. Usually 40 ml one side, 40 ml other and that again. Last time 20 ml both sides.

I do them ones or sometimes more times i day, depends on how i feel.

You can rinse you sinusses with te syringe but tilting your head to the side, so one ear is up the other is down. Then slowly push the water in the upper nostril (sp?) and it will come out through the other side.

The should be effective and it's cheap.

I have irrigation solution now from the pharmacy so don't make my own salt water but i have done that in the past.
 
M

Marjolein

New member
You can always boil water and put salt in that.. You boil that water, let it cool of. Then you put the salt in it. A teaspoon (those small ones) salt, not with a bump of salt on it but flattened otherwise it is too much in one glass of water (250 ml). Hope that makes sence hehe, english is not my first language so don't know how to explain it that well.

Get a syringe. i have 2 of 20 ml that i wash in the dishes and i boil them too.
I think i use about 100 ml in total per side. Usually 40 ml one side, 40 ml other and that again. Last time 20 ml both sides.

I do them ones or sometimes more times i day, depends on how i feel.

You can rinse you sinusses with te syringe but tilting your head to the side, so one ear is up the other is down. Then slowly push the water in the upper nostril (sp?) and it will come out through the other side.

The should be effective and it's cheap.

I have irrigation solution now from the pharmacy so don't make my own salt water but i have done that in the past.
 
M

Marjolein

New member
You can always boil water and put salt in that.. You boil that water, let it cool of. Then you put the salt in it. A teaspoon (those small ones) salt, not with a bump of salt on it but flattened otherwise it is too much in one glass of water (250 ml). Hope that makes sence hehe, english is not my first language so don't know how to explain it that well.

Get a syringe. i have 2 of 20 ml that i wash in the dishes and i boil them too.
I think i use about 100 ml in total per side. Usually 40 ml one side, 40 ml other and that again. Last time 20 ml both sides.

I do them ones or sometimes more times i day, depends on how i feel.

You can rinse you sinusses with te syringe but tilting your head to the side, so one ear is up the other is down. Then slowly push the water in the upper nostril (sp?) and it will come out through the other side.

The should be effective and it's cheap.

I have irrigation solution now from the pharmacy so don't make my own salt water but i have done that in the past.
 
M

Marjolein

New member
You can always boil water and put salt in that.. You boil that water, let it cool of. Then you put the salt in it. A teaspoon (those small ones) salt, not with a bump of salt on it but flattened otherwise it is too much in one glass of water (250 ml). Hope that makes sence hehe, english is not my first language so don't know how to explain it that well.

Get a syringe. i have 2 of 20 ml that i wash in the dishes and i boil them too.
I think i use about 100 ml in total per side. Usually 40 ml one side, 40 ml other and that again. Last time 20 ml both sides.

I do them ones or sometimes more times i day, depends on how i feel.

You can rinse you sinusses with te syringe but tilting your head to the side, so one ear is up the other is down. Then slowly push the water in the upper nostril (sp?) and it will come out through the other side.

The should be effective and it's cheap.

I have irrigation solution now from the pharmacy so don't make my own salt water but i have done that in the past.
 
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