Sigh nuses ...

[digitS']

Sinuses.

They are often the location for a headache. Years ago, I had several months of problems and stayed on an antibiotic for those several months.

I had a cold in December. One January day - terrible headache. "I know what this is!" I tell the nurse. She gave me an in-office flu test. Nope, not the flu just a sinus infection. Five more days of antibiotics.

Then yesterday morning, I'm thinking, "is this sinus infection coming back?!" Oh no! I go off to the pharmacy after reading some online ads and I pick up a bottle of Zicam.

Anyone with some experience with this? I seem to have gotten over the discomfort almost immediately. Herbal ingredients with some "clinical proof." Am I just imagining improvement; should I have driven right past that pharmacy to the MD office? What works?

Steve

 

[digitS']

Third active ingredient listed: "Sabadilla is derived from the ripe seeds of Schoenocaulon officinale, a tropical lily plant which grows in Central and South America... When sabadilla seeds are aged, heated, or treated with alkali, several insecticidal alkaloids are formed or activated. Alkaloids are physiologically active compounds that occur naturally in many plants. ... Caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, quinine, and strychnine are some of the more familiar alkaloids. The alkaloids in sabadilla are known collectively as veratrine or as the veratrine alkaloids." U of Illinois, Extension a aww a

So, I can use this in my nose and to kill bugs on the house plants, as well!

Steve

 

[catjac1975]

Sinuses.

They are often the location for a headache. Years ago, I had several months of problems and stayed on an antibiotic for those several months.

I had a cold in December. One January day - terrible headache. "I know what this is!" I tell the nurse. She gave me an in-office flu test. Nope, not the flu just a sinus infection. Five more days of antibiotics.

Then yesterday morning, I'm thinking, "is this sinus infection coming back?!" Oh no! I go off to the pharmacy after reading some online ads and I pick up a bottle of Zicam.

Anyone with some experience with this? I seem to have gotten over the discomfort almost immediately. Herbal ingredients with some "clinical proof." Am I just imagining improvement; should I have driven right past that pharmacy to the MD office? What works?

Steve

I swear by the netti pot for keeping sinus infection at bay and healing sinuses if ill.

 

[flowerbug]

I swear by the netti pot for keeping sinus infection at bay and healing sinuses if ill.

yes indeed. i don't have a netti pot to use, but in the spring when the tree and other pollens i react to are in the air when i come back inside from being outside i wash my face, rinse out my eyes and also rinse out my nose. it keeps me from having to use any drugs at all and i don't get infections any more.

i should be doing it once or twice a day in the winter too, when it gets so dry.

just be careful you are not using raw water that can have brain eating amoebas in it... i use well water, shouldn't have any amoebas down that far...

 

[digitS']

I tried a neti pot to post about 10 years ago and came up with few ideas how to keep it somewhat sterile between uses. Seemed a great bother, then. I'm using saline spray in the hours between the other snuff.

I'm troubled by summer allergies. They worsen as the season progresses and I spend more time outdoors each day. We also have drier conditions by late summer. Then, we go into the heating season.

Exercise helps - it brings life back to all systems. But, the respiratory infections drug me down into lethargy. I just don't know how there is life without movement.

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

We use the old hot water in a pot method with a towel hung over your head. My husband has always been resistant to this until this winter. He noticed such a big difference when he came out from under the towel. His sinuses were draining and his cough loosened up a lot. He only does it for 5 minutes, but I stay under until the water stops feeling hot.

I added a few drops of eucalyptus essential oil in the pot this last go round, and that seems to have made it more effective.

 

[catjac1975]

yes indeed. i don't have a netti pot to use, but in the spring when the tree and other pollens i react to are in the air when i come back inside from being outside i wash my face, rinse out my eyes and also rinse out my nose. it keeps me from having to use any drugs at all and i don't get infections any more.

i should be doing it once or twice a day in the winter too, when it gets so dry.

just be careful you are not using raw water that can have brain eating amoebas in it... i use well water, shouldn't have any amoebas down that far...

Netti pots are cheap. You get saline packets to use a a rise. Any one who wins in salt water knows what an instant heal it is for a variety of thins, bug bites, wounds rashes. Try adding the saline.

 

[digitS']

I like the Epsom salts with eucalyptus, such a pleasant bath!

There is eucalyptus and menthol in this spray.

Quite a combination of plants I know something about and those I don't. Luffa ... ..?

Steve

 

[Beekissed]

Stop eating or drinking any and all dairy. Start consuming raw honey bought from a local grower who keeps bees in your area, each and every day. Flush sinuses with normal saline each day.

It works. Give it time...it always works.

 

[Zeedman]

I feel ya, @digitS' . My sinuses & my bronchial tubes have a running battle each year, to see which one can get infected first... it's not the cold or flu which gets me, it is the bacterial infection that so often follows shortly thereafter. The fact that I frequently work in a dusty part of the plant in my job certainly doesn't help. Tried the netti pot for the first time this year; it helped a little just before bed, but apparently it won't replace the need for antibiotics.