Until recently I never knew what a neti pot was for. I would see one in the store and cringe. I imagined that you filled it with steaming water put a towel over your head and held your head above the steaming neti pot and the mucus would drain out of your nose. That sounds pretty disgusting right? Well I was wrong and while I have not tried a neti pot I have tried using a blue ball syringe.
I just took a warm shower and used a blue ball syringe with a salt water mix and I feel slightly more human now. The first time I tried this I was nervous and I thought it would feel like accidentally breathing in pool water through your nose with the coughing and gagging and burning.
This was not the case, it did feel a little weird the first time but not uncomfortable. I can finally breathe through my nose and I am not grabbing for the tissue every five seconds. Also my ears are less sensitive and my head no longer hurts as terrifyingly bad as it did 2 hours ago.
Also watch the video in its entirety, if you make the "k" sound while doing the nasal irrigation the solution comes out of your nose completely with none going in your mouth or down your throat.
Until recently I never knew what a neti pot was for. I would see one in the store and cringe. I imagined that you filled it with steaming water put a towel over your head and held your head above the steaming neti pot and the mucus would drain out of your nose. That sounds pretty disgusting right? Well I was wrong and while I have not tried a neti pot I have tried using a blue ball syringe.
I just took a warm shower and used a blue ball syringe with a salt water mix and I feel slightly more human now. The first time I tried this I was nervous and I thought it would feel like accidentally breathing in pool water through your nose with the coughing and gagging and burning.
This was not the case, it did feel a little weird the first time but not uncomfortable. I can finally breathe through my nose and I am not grabbing for the tissue every five seconds. Also my ears are less sensitive and my head no longer hurts as terrifyingly bad as it did 2 hours ago.
Also watch the video in its entirety, if you make the "k" sound while doing the nasal irrigation the solution comes out of your nose completely with none going in your mouth or down your throat.
Additional video HERE