Re: Question for Chaya and RG

Hi Donna,

I am gonig to defer the first portion of your post/questions to RG.  I'd also like to hear his take on what (daily) long term use of the cream might do.

I've been irrigating for a few years now, but never with as much committment and ritual as I am now, determined as I am now to see to my health. 

I have a Neti-Pot.  I also have a Grossan Irrigator (Electric).  But what I am using is a new product by Neil Med.  It is a squirt bottle.  It provides more flushing force (yet is gentle) that the others.  The electirc irrigator is something (like a water pic and) that needs to be carefully cleaned from time to time.  So, that is more of a chore.  Besides, it does not flush as well, as, say, the squirt bottle, or even a bulb syringe - which I have also used.  The electirc one now sits in a box in my storage room.  I like things that are user-friendly, easy to use and care for. 

It is best to irrigate three times a day. 

I make my own saline spray solution (saves me dollars and does not contain preservatives as many of the store bought ones do).

I take a gallon of distilled water and add 16 measured teaspoons of fine granule, non-iodized, sea salt.  I don't fuss with the expensive sea salts.  That would be way too costly, given how much I use this saline water.

I buy a few bottles of the saline mist from the store.  The spray tips/nozzles are removeable.  I use them over and again, with my own solution.

There is another wonderful product out there, Alkolol (http://www.alkalolcompany.com/#):  Purified Water (USP); Menthol; Eucalyptol; Thymol; Camphor; Benzoin; Oils of Wintergreen, Spearmint, Pine, and Cinnamon; Potassium Alum; Potassium Chlorate; Sodium Bicarbonate; Sodium Chloride; Alcohol (2/100 of 1%); Caramel Color.  It literally melts mucus.  And as the site says, it does feel very refreshing.  I mix this with my saline solution 50/50 and fill one of the spray mist bottles with it.  I use this throughout the day.  The Alkolol can be obtained from most pharmacies, over the counter, without a prescription.  If you are interested in this one, you could call your local pharmacies to see which ones stock it.  It comes in bottles the same size as your general bottles of hydrogen peroxide.  I also use it before irrigating with saline water and grapefrtuit seed extract 3x day.  For the irrigation, I simple add a very drops of grapefruit seed extract (a natural antibiotic) per 8 ounces of water.  I don't irrigate with the Alkolol, as at a 50/50 solution, I'd need to buy bottles of it by the case.  Though it is only a couple dollars a bottle, it would be too expensive for my daily irrigating.  So, I let it do it's thing throughout the day and just before irrigating with the grapefruit seed extract solution.  I find it is good the turn ones head upside down and even side to side and back for several seconds each, to give the alkolol (and the oregano oil I have been experimenting with) a chance to saturate as much of the sinus cavities as possible.

The saline I first learned of years ago, from a doctor.  The graefruit seed extract was suggested to me by a very dear friend, a healer and homeopathic practicioner.  The alkolol I learned of after my last surgery.  I really like it.  It works well and is VERY soothing and cleansing.  One could irrigate with it with less than a 50/50 solution (and I have and it feels good), but would still be overall costly for 3x daily irrigating.  

My nose became like it is with my two surgeries.  The first surgery nine years ago removed the inferior turbinates.  I did not know this until I had my second surgery (which gave me the opportunity to have another CT Scan done).  Still, though, I did not then understand WHAT was done to me, and the ramifications of it.  The second surgery was two years ago.  He removed the middle turbinates and most of the ethmoid sinus cavities.

I think the key it going to be my persistence with flushing my sinus cavities.

Have you had a CT scan done, to see if there might be more causing your headaches.  Just in case there is.  Atleast then you would know if there was or was not.  With my loss of smell, I wanted to be sure there is no tumor creating the problem, which could have evolved into more complications.  Fortunately, there is not.   

Certainly, the critters had something to do with the irritation to my turbinates.  But what did the docs do?  Take them out!  I do not believe there was a need for that. 

Best, Chaya