Clear your sinuses quickly with a homemade neti pot solution with an easy baking soda sinus-cleansing trick at home.
Each year, as winter looms, I round everyone up for a fun-filled family outing to get flu shots. Once administered, I feel invincible, safe, and protected– it lasts about 20 minutes, until I remember that soon enough, the first round of whatever other lurking vaccine- less bugs out there will show up to infect my crew. This winter, when an ugly virus made its rounds, I was sick for about a day or two, but made a reasonably quick recovery thanks to my own Cold and Flu Detox Bath. I soon felt like a person again, except for MY WHOLE ENTIRE HEAD, which felt like it had been filled in with cement. One side of my face was so swollen I looked like I’d been in the ring with Rocky Balboa. Fortunately, this sinus rinse provided quick relief so I could get back to wiping other people’s noses.
Ingredients:
- 1/4 teaspoon non- iodized salt
Directions:
In a clean container, combine salt, baking soda, and water. Using a soft rubber ear bulb syringe, infant nasal bulb, or a nasal saline rinse product, such as a neti pot, use the rinse as follows:
- Draw up saline into the bulb. Tilt your head downward over a sink (or in the shower) and rotate to the left. Squeeze approximately 4 ounces of solution gently into the right (top) nostril. Breathe normally through your mouth. In a few seconds, the solution should come out through your left nostril. Rotate your head and repeat the process on the left side.
- Adjust your head position as needed so the solution does not go down the back of your throat or into your ears.
- Blow your nose gently to prevent the solution from going into your ear, causing discomfort.
Caution: Do not use sinus rinse if your nasal passages are severely blocked.
More from: The Baking Soda Companion
• Easy Baking Soda Home Air Freshener
• Homemade Baking Soda Shaving Butter
• Cutting Board Baking Soda Cleaner
Reprinted with permission from The Baking Soda Companion (2018), by Suzy Scherr and published by Countryman Press.
