How Saline Nasal Spray Helps You With Dusty Air
Unless you are blessed with living in a rather pristine environment you know that a lot of the time you are breathing air that is not so healthy. In fact a lot of the time you breath air that has a bunch of stuff in it. This dust in the air has some rather predictable effects: it irritates the nose and it causes swellling of the nasal passages.
There is kind of a cascade of events that happens when the nose starts reacting to “dirty air”. These things include swelling of the nose, a feeling like the nose is “stuffy” and often reaches the point where it’s just easier to breath through the mouth. If you remember ever having to breath through your mouth for an extended period of time you know that that was no fun.
Without trying to sound too dogmatic I think there is really only one good “solution” to this problem: wash the stuff out of the nose. This has all of the positive virtue of making sense but still a negative because of the different opinions as to how this can best be done. Should it be salt water? if so, how much? How strong should it be?
If the dirty stuff that is inhaled into the nose is not irrigated out it’s not as if it will stay there forever. The body does have a very good self cleaning system and stuff is eventually slowly washed out by the body’s irrigation system. However for many people they are inhaling this bad “stuff” faster than the body is washing it out.
So it is very important that you have a strategy to get the “stuff” out of the nose if you want to have a healthy nose. If you don’t have a good strategy, I suggest using a home made solution because it not only works well, you have the added benefit of having a solution that doesn’t have preservatives in it.
Why is it important to use a system that doesn’t have preservatives? Well unfortunately the preservatives themselves cause irritation to the nose and this irritation is enough to itself cause swelling. So when you use a home made solution that is free of preservatives you get the best of the irrigating and cleaning effect of the solution and at the same time you avoid the bad effects of the preservatives. This is a winning combination!
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