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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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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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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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Saline Sinus Rinse Poll Results
Posted on25. May, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.
We had 66 votes total – not a huge number, and probably not enough to do statistical analysis (thank goodness), but interesting results nonetheless. Here are the results, and some recommendations:
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Saline Sinus Rinses: What Good Are They? 1/4
Posted on22. Apr, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.
I have been personally coping with allergic rhinitis from the age of 6 or so, and with recurrent and chronic sinusitis for at least 20 years now. Although I was fortunate that allergy desensitization (allergy shots), gave me great relief, somewhere around age 8, I am not completely symptom free. Antihistamines, the standard conventional treatment, were not much benefit. And I hate the side effects. So, about 10 years ago I began using the home remedy of nasal-sinus irrigation using a weak salt water (saline) concoction. This is a method of cleansing the nasal and sinus cavities.
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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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