# Give my your Neti Pot Experiences

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-my-your-neti-pot-experiences/432280>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 4, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-my-your-neti-pot-experiences/432280 "2008-01-04T16:46:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-my-your-neti-pot-experiences/432280/61 "2011-01-28T04:09:27Z")

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Well, I tried it tonight. Not much flow was achieved, because I’m so stuffy, but the resulting snot output was impressive and I felt better in one nostril, at least. I’ll keep trying and see if repeated attempts clear things up.

StG

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-my-your-neti-pot-experiences/432280/62 "2011-01-28T11:34:26Z")

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> [@StGermain](#):
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> Well, I tried it tonight. Not much flow was achieved, because I’m so stuffy, but the resulting snot output was impressive and I felt better in one nostril, at least. I’ll keep trying and see if repeated attempts clear things up.
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> StG

I have had a cold hit me bad enough this winter that it took 5 or 6 neti pots full to make enough of a dent, and that was with also sitting in a hot steamy shower ☹

There is no overdose, you can hang in a comfy hot shower netiing until the water goes cold .. 😛

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**Author:** ![abderian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@abderian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abderian)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-my-your-neti-pot-experiences/432280/63 "2011-01-28T21:14:01Z")

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> [@NurseCarmen](#):
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> I love my neti. I’m hard core about it, I suck the saline way back in to my nasal passage, and I’ve been known to hit neti gold. Nothing feels better that hacking out a prune sized boogie in to the shower drain. Sounds nasty, but get back to me once you’ve done it once with a cold. It doesn’t bug me when it runs down the back of my nasal passage in to my throat. I just block it and drain it out of my mouth. Snoring? Gone. Repeated ear infections? Gone. Constant stuffed up nose? Gone.

NurseCarmen, this post was simply inspiring. I read the words “prune sized boogie” last night and bought my first neti pot today.

The initial test-run was . . . interesting. No prune-sized boogies, but I feel clean. Just like it went with the saline spray, though, I neti-poured the solution into my right nostril and it ran freely out my left; I poured it into my left nostril and it just backed up in the same nostril. So there must be some sort of one-way blockage in there. I’ll keep working at it in hopes of busting through.

Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration!

PW

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**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-my-your-neti-pot-experiences/432280/64 "2011-01-29T03:59:28Z")

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If my sinuses are inflamed because of a cold, what I usually do is snort a single squirt of nasal decongestant like Afrin up each nostril, wait a few minutes, and then do the sinus rinse.

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