{"id":9670,"key":"Nasal_saline_rinse","title":"Nasal saline rinse","latest":{"id":1207616,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T22:34:00Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:FACT- Rinsing your nose with saline does NOT prevent COVID-19 (cropped).png|thumb]]\n\n{{Project data\n| authors = User:Steve.mccrosky\n}}\n\nExposure to airborne irritants and allergens leading to allergic rhinitis (hayfever) can be relieved with a nasal rinse of saline solution. Availability and cost of commercially prepared saline solutions may limit accessibilty to treatment.\n\n== Summary ==\n\nA homemade recipe of boiled water, salt, and baking soda is made for irrigation of the nasal mucous membranes.\n\n== Instructions ==\n\n''(Also available by [[Media:Nasal Saline Rinse Instructions.doc|download]] as a patient handout.)''\n\nNasal saline (salt water) rinses can help allergies and sinus infections by:\n:Thinning secretions\n:Removing pollen, dust and other allergens from your nose\n:Removing secretions to make surfaces in your nose available for nasal steroid sprays\n\nTo make your own saline rinse, mix together in a clean container:\n:¼ teaspoon salt,\n:1 cup warm water\n:1 pinch baking soda\n\nRemember:\n:If possible, use a non-iodized salt such as sea salt\n:If needed, adjust the amount of salt so that it tastes as salty as tears\n:Make a new batch every 24 hours\n:Use the saline rinse at least 15 minutes before using nasal steroid sprays\n:Use a clean dropper bottle to put drops in nose\n:You can also clean your hands, pour a small amount into your palm and snort the solution into your nose\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [[Wikipedia:Nasal irrigation]] - general information about a method of flooding the nasal cavity with saline.\n* [[Wikipedia:Jala neti]] - a traditional Indian (yoga) method of nasal irrigation.\n\n== References ==\n\nFerguson BJ. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=9158611 Allergic rhinitis. Options for pharmacotherapy and immunotherapy.]\nPostgrad Med. 1997 May;101(5):117-20, 123-6, 131.\n\nRabone SJ, Saraswati SB. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=10628043 Acceptance and effects of nasal lavage in volunteer woodworkers.]Occup Med (Lond). 1999 Aug;49(6):365-9.\n\n[https://web.archive.org/web/20080603024157/http://www.fpnotebook.com:80/ENT166.htm Family Practice Notebook ENT166]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = Medical care, nasal rinse, airborne arritants, allergens, saline solution, salt, water, baking soda\n| sdg = SDG03 Good health and well-being\n| authors = User:Steve.mccrosky\n| published = 2007\n}}\n\n[[Category:Health and safety]]\n[[Category:How tos]]\n[[Category:Medical care]]\n[[Category:Water]]"}