Can I damage my nose with a ShopVac?

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Just get a neti pot, why don’t you? http://www.jalanetipot.com/

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[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan]
Just get a neti pot, why don’t you? http://www.jalanetipot.com/
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TDoesn’t that feel bad? :: remembering snorting water in the pool as a kid::

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[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone]
TDoesn’t that feel bad? :: remembering snorting water in the pool as a kid::
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It’s salt water, so it shouldn’t feel all that weird. Regular or chlorinated water would be quite unpleasant.

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[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone]
TDoesn’t that feel bad? :: remembering snorting water in the pool as a kid::
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Nope. The saline is about the same concentration as is in normal nasal mucous.

It basically rinses out the nasal passages much more gently than a shopvac would clean them out, while providing moisture to dry, cracked, and scabbed areas in the nares. One may repeat as often as needed, and I and a lot of patients swear by them for our chronic nasal congestion/allergies/sinus infections, which use to require buckets of antibiotics, decongestants, antihistamines and nasal steroids to treat (and not particularly successfully at that).

And no, I get no kickback from the neti pot people :wink: