Tag Archives: neti pot
Brain-Eating Amoeba and Nasal Rinses?
Posted on29. Dec, 2011 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.
The following post is based on a Telephone Interview from 12/22/2011, on the topic of Amoebic Meningoencephalitis, with Robert W. Tolan, Jr., M. D., FAAP, FIDSA. You can read more about Dr. Tolan’s impressive credentials below. To summarize, Dr. Tolan is the real deal, and is perhaps the best-qualified person to answer my question: Will nasal [...]
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Rhinitis medicamentosa
Posted on12. May, 2011 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.
Getting the Oxymetazoline Monkey Off Your Back: Don’t Become an Oxy-Addict! Oxymetazoline – Afrin, Neosynephrine, Dristan – oxymetazoline. If you have chronic nasal congestion, oxymetazoline can provide pure magical relief. For short periods. It can reduce nasal swelling to help eliminate an acute sinusitis, or simply to help open your nose during a “cold”. [...]
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Poll Results: What is Your Method for Nasal Saline Rinses?
Posted on31. Mar, 2011 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.
Well, the poll results are in. I usually try to take a poll down once a couple hundred results are recorded. This poll has reached over 290 results, and the results were not what I had expected: What Methods Do We Use for Nasal Saline Rinses? 51% still use the Neti pot, as you can [...]
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3 Year Old Boy Hospitalized For Severe Sinusitis: Simple Cure
Posted on08. Apr, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.
There are good scientific studies that have evaluated the efficacy of saline sinus rinses. But seeing is believing. At a time when I was only sporadically doing my own sinus rinses (have I mentioned how I detest doing them?), a distant children’s hospital asked me to help them treat a seriously ill little boy, who was hospitalized with sinusitis. Here is what I recommended. Here is how it turned out …
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