Seattlest: Quit Spending Your Paycheck On Claritin

Katelyn

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:48:35 -0800

What I like so much about my ceramic neti pot, apart from functionality, is how beautiful it is. It's truly eco-friendly, hand-shaped, and a pleasure to look at; I'm fond of ceramic anyway, and if I'm going to be rinsing out my nostrils, I feel I might as well enjoy the sensory experience of holding the neti pot while I do it. Plus, it looks pretty on my shelf. It took me a good three or four months of sporadic neti-potting using my housemate's neti pot (gross, in retrospect! eww sharing!) for me to get fully comfortable with the idea of investing in my own, but now I can't imagine not having it. I definitely recommend trying it out, whether or not you go plastic or ceramic.

redwoodtree

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:24:29 -0800

I still can't figure this nettipot thing out, but , there's a squirt style bottle , that's amazing. It comes with salt packets at just the right PH, and you squeeze into your nose after mixing it. The whole thing takes about 5 minutes, and well, it's totally saved me from some wicked allergies. I recommend the squeeze bottle over this netti pot business. Granted the individual salt packets generate a small amount of non recyclable waste, which is unfortunate. I'm all for vitamin c and acupuncture, but if that solved your allergies, you had something else going on. That's like taking an advil to fix a broken arm. But then again, who knows.... Maybe you can recommend your acupuncturist :-)

johnnye

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:49:19 -0800

I prefer vitamin C and acupuncture. The acupuncture helps get the junk out of my lungs. I used to have very bad allergies but no more! I just don't like shoving anything into my nose or dropping stuff into my eyes.

caseydoran

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:41:32 -0800

As the standard OTC remedy, DayQuil is expensive AND contains pseudoephedrine, so I wouldn't recommend if you are on a DEA Meth-Lab Watch List or have any outstanding warrants.

Tom

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:55:14 -0800

Bowers, at some point I'm sure that swirling a brush, paste, and water in one's mouth, and then spitting it all out, was considered loopy and alternative. :)

TroyJMorris

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:44:00 -0800

My friend got bloody noses regularly until he tried this. I shiver everytime he brings it up.

bowers

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:21:38 -0800

We were talking about this recently over at Trusera. It still just seems a bit nutty to me (my mother's been doing it for a lil while now, and she generally gravitates toward that kind of loopy alternative treatment stuff), but if you want to stick Aladdin's lamp up your nose, more power to ya...

Katelyn

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:43:29 -0800

I totes stir with my finger, I concur that it's a little gross but I do wash my hands before. Yes to the distilled water, and to add to your addition, herbisara, I recommend using WARM water. Cold water hurts like the dickens, no matter how pure it is!

herbisara

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:10:33 -0800

I recommend using distilled water as well.

Kim Ruehl

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:00:45 -0800

now i must know how to unlock my root chakra using some mr. muscle and a can of WD-40! best part of that video: he stirs the saline solution with his finger.