Stephen and I have the same head cold, and the same low emotional tolerance for illness, which means that for the past two days we’ve been moaning like this is the worst thing that has ever happened to us. And despite our impressive arsenal of vitamins and cold medicine, we were both kept awake last night by the minor annoyance of being unable to breathe.
So this morning, snot-nosed and bleary eyed, we decided that we needed to try something different. Namely: a Neti Pot. Neither of us had ever used one, but I’d heard good things, and we were just too darn miserable not to give it a chance.
Now, a Neti Pot in action is one of the more unusual and undignified things you’ll ever do to yourself, but I’m telling you, that little thing really works. Stephen loved it so much he started composing a spontaneous ode to the Neti Pot. I’m just happy that I can breathe again…
I’m so scared of those things. I can’t put anything up my nose, I was traumatised by a childhood of horrendous hayfever medication. Ugh.
Is this the thingie you use to pour salt water into your nose?
I *heart* neti pots! Glad you’re on board. I’ve turned into a neti pot evangelist of sorts, but most of my friends think it sounds too gross to use.
Yup. In practice it’s not as crazy as it sounds.
I think my brother will soon be preaching the word of Neti Pots. He’s definitely convinced that it’s invaluable.
I was definitely afraid that it would give me the sensation of drowning in my own snot and sea water, but it was actually *less* irritating than those stupid nasal sprays. And of course, I did it in the shower where I was less concerned about dribbling all over myself. Nobody needs to see that.
Ahh, I love that. Well, I don’t use an actual neti pot, but one of those basting syringes instead, which gives me a little more control than I think I could get out of a pot.
When I have a sinus infection, I add a tiny (and I mean tiny) amount of apple cider vinegar into the saline solution. It stings like the dickens, but it clears it up real fast.
Interesting about the ACV. Is there *anything* that vinegar can’t do? :-)
*thinks for a moment…*
Nope. :-)