Some Simple Steps to Reduce You Child’s Nose Bleeds [video]

Posted on27. Oct, 2011 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

Reducing Epistaxis in Your Child: _______________________________________ _______________________________________ For More Reading – this Blog: This video: http://youtu.be/hgcSFXZez8k Nose bleeds – Epistaxis: How to Stop It, How to Prevent It, When to See the Doc Part 1 – Anatomy of Nose Bleeds: http://wp.me/pR4iB-S Part 2 – Nose Bleeds: What To Do? http://wp.me/pR4iB-W Part 3 – 8 Things [...]

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What to Look For in a Humidifier – An Update

Posted on09. Sep, 2011 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

.This is an update from an article that I posted about a year ago, What to Look For in a Humidifier: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly. As we enter the cold and flu season, as the weather cools down and we turn up the heat at home, at school, and at work, nasal drying [...]

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A Story About a Sugar: The X-Factor

Posted on11. Jun, 2011 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

I want to tell y’all a little story about a sugar – Xylitol. Cool name. Sounds a little futuristic. In my mind, any name with X’s or Z’s sounds like something from a 1950’s scifi movie. Maybe an alien name. First, to see the full image, click on the image that accompanies this blog post [...]

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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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Thank You All For A Great Year – boogordoctor.com Turns One Year Old Today

Posted on05. Mar, 2011 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

Wow. It has been one whole year since I set up this blog site for my patients, for their families, and for anyone else challenged by Unified Airway Disorders – asthma, allergies, rhinitis, sinusitis, reflux, otitis, bronchitis, and all other pediatric Ear, Nose & Throat issues. I am extremely grateful to generous contributors to my [...]

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Rhinitis of Pregnancy – What It Is, What To Do About It

Posted on03. Mar, 2011 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

Miracles Yes, growing a new human inside you is a miracle, one of life’s wonders. Something to cherish, and we men envy this about you. You –  woman – are amazing! But, we don’t envy the physiological toll that pregnancy collects from you women – pregnancy, for all of its beauty, can be physically grueling. [...]

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Ask The Expert – Teach Your Child to Blow Their Nose

Posted on20. Jan, 2011 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

I often receive emails asking how parents can get their toddlers or children to blow their noses. It can be frustrating – for both parents and their children. And all of that nose goop is just setting your child up for a more serious rhinitis or sinusitis. In this Ask The Expert article, Dr. Hana tells us how she teaches kids to blow their noses.

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Rhinitis, Sinusitis, Otitis, Laryngitis, Adenoiditis, Tonsillitis Are All Connected

Posted on25. Nov, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

Cut From the Same Cloth The Unified Airway Model helps explain why children who have rhinitis also get more than their share of otitis (ear infections) or adenoiditis or tonsillitis or sinusitis or asthma exacerbations, etc. All these anatomic regions have a similar lining, and when one area becomes inflamed or infected, they can all [...]

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Is REFLUX Causing Your Child’s Asthma?

Posted on11. Nov, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

About 75% of those with asthma have reflux symptoms. For adults, that means heartburn, burping. For children, they often don’t have classic symptoms. In fact, asthma or other respiratory disorders may be the symptoms in children. This brief post describes how to tell whether you should consider reflux as the cause of your child’s asthma.

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Quit Smoking: Do It For Your Kids

Posted on21. Oct, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

If You, or Your Children, Have Asthma, Rhinitis, Sinusitis, Otitis, … If your child has any of these chronic inflammatory aero-digestive disorders, YOU. MUST. QUIT. SMOKING. Tobacco smoke has been shown, with no doubt, to cause all of these ailments: asthma, rhinitis, sinusitis, otitis.  Not to mention that smoking will take, on average, 15 years [...]

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Some Facts About Your Air Quality From the American Lung Association

Posted on07. Oct, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

From the American Lung Association, here are some facts about our air quality for 2010. Some of them are encouraging, like improved air quality in most of the worst-polluted cities compared to last year’s list. Some discouraging, like just how bad our air quality remains. The list provides some tips on improving our air quality. Continue reading to check it out …

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Chronic Airway-Digestive Inflammatory Disorders: do YOU have CAID?

Posted on23. Sep, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

Allergic Rhinitis: 40 – 50 Million in USA with allergic rhinitis 10-30%  of adults have allergic rhinitis Almost 40% of children miss some school each year due to allergies! 12 Million doctor-visits per year for allergic rhinitis! 55% of those with sinusitis have history of allergic rhinitis. Sinusitis: estimated 20-30 Million in USA with sinusitis [...]

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Use Plants to Purify and Detoxify Your Air

Posted on15. Jul, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

Interesting story: We have NASA and an asthmatic in India to thank for finding the right plants to detoxify our air for us. That’s right, NASA – the space people, and a business man with severe asthma. And plants also provide us with oxygen as an added benefit. Here’s the story …

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The Human Pollution Experiment …

Posted on08. Jul, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

“… OK then, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, we’ll put your little Sally in this box for 6 months, and pipe industrial waste smoke into the box to see how that affects her nose and lungs and stuff. Oh, and we’ll need to take some surgical biopsies occasionally. You’re cool with that, right?
Just sign here …”

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Honey – Nature’s Antibiotic

Posted on24. Jun, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

You may have noticed that your honey never seems to develop mold or bacterial contamination, even when it isn’t refrigerated after opening.  We now know why this is: honey has innate anti-microbial activity. Honey is a natural antibiotic !!  Who knew? Well, it seems that ancient humans knew:  For over 2 thousand years humans have [...]

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Thanks ShoutOut

Posted on07. Jun, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

I want to thank “Dr. Hana” for helping put a check mark next to one of my BIG to-do’s. It isn’t often that one of the BIG items on my long (way too long) to-do list gets a check-mark. It is truly remarkable when someone else takes care of the check-mark, with no effort on my part.

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Sinus Rinses: if once/day is good, is 4x/day even better?

Posted on03. Jun, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

And other stuff on my mind …

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The “Ciliopathies”

Posted on20. May, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

When those little hair-like cilia don’t work normally, bad things happen. The medical terms are “dysmotile cilia syndrome”, “primary ciliary dyskinesia”, and acquired or “secondary ciliary dyskinesia.” All contribute to ear infections (otitis, mastoiditis), sinus infections (rhinosinusitis), and other respiratory infections. Whether “primary” or acquired, here are some tips that might help.

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Saline Sinus Rinses: What Good Are They? 4/4

Posted on13. May, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

If you insist on making your own saline solution …

Before I switched over to the store-bought, Nasopure saline rinse system, this is the recipe I used for years:

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