The Lo Tech Saline Nasal Solution
When people go shopping for treatments for their nasal problems they encounter quite a few options. So many options it’s hard to say which is the best. Some of these treatments are aimed at getting a saline nasal spray up the nose.
Of all the treatments one might buy in the store surely the most simple is nasal saline spray. Or at least it should be simple! First you need a saline solution that is safe for the nose— water and salt in most cases- and unfortunately if you’re going to sell your product in the store you often need a preservative to keep it safe from bad germs. In fact most of the sprays that are for sale in the store will have preservatives in them. That definitely moves it away from being simple “saline nasal spray”.
Some people don’t seem to think too much negative about having powerful chemicals being sprayed into the nose. But then some people minimize the various chemicals that pollute our whole environment. The assumption is that these foreign chemicals are neutral on the body. In fact they are not. And in particular the preservatives that are sprayed into the nose have an irritating effect on the cells that line the nasal passages. Is this a surprise to anyone? And unfortunately while the preservatives are having a negative effect on the nasal lining, they aren’t doing much to kill the bad germs that are already in the nose!
Not only do the store bought strategies have chemicals that are bad for the lining of the nose, they employ devices to get the saline “up there” that aren’t as good as a “lo tech” approach. You will read in some places that sniffing saline nasal solution from the palm of your hand “doesn’t work”. Don’t believe this opinion. They don’t know what they are talking about.
I have discovered over more than 30 years of medicine that the best way to get saline nasal solution up your nose is to sniff it from the palm of your hand. To be sure there is a technique that I”ve developed over the years that makes it work a lot better. I call it the “Lo-tech, No-tech” strategy for nasal irrigation. You can learn about it on my blog.
In summary, if you combine the right ingredients in making a good nasal saline solution (that can also be used as a saline nasal spray if you wish) and use that Lo tech but wonderful tool, the hand (that is, Lo tech in that it is not made by people), you will have amazing results in dealing with all chronic nasal symptoms. Oh and don’t forget– you get to lose the preservatives.
Learn more about saline nasal spray. Stop by Dr Stanley Lang’s site where you can find out all about saline nasal solution and what it can do for you.