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Dr. Quintin M. Cappelle, an otolaryngologist, or ear, nose and throat doctor, at the Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse, Wis., tells Yahoo Life that these kinds of sinus rinses, most commonly ...
Ceramic neti pot. Neti pots are commonly used and rely on gravity and head position in order to rinse the outer sinus cavities. Typically they have a spout attached near the bottom, sometimes with a handle on the opposite side. [4] Various squeeze bottles for nasal irrigation have also been used to apply the water. [4]
The neti pot is actually just one of the ways you can perform nasal saline irrigation. There’s also a bulb syringe or, Dr. Pearlman’s preferred method, a bottle.
NeilMed Pharmaceuticals was founded by Ketan C. Mehta, [6] [7] a pulmonary and critical-care physician, and Nina Mehta in the year 2000. [8] [9] [10] It started as a side project in 1999 to build a device that could be used to effectively and naturally rinse the sinuses for sinusitis sufferers known as NeilMed Sinus Rinse.
The neti pot helps to rinse out debris and mucus from the sinus cavity, she explains. "I follow that with a nasal steroid that needs to be used daily for it to be effective," Gasbarro says.
Also, all of this stuff badly needs references/citations. I have no idea where most of this material came from, but it's certainly not all from the relatively short Mayo Clinic articles referenced at the bottom. Good luck to whomever takes up the torch - er, the pot! :) 12.76.183.69 16:39, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
The CDC has reported cases of "Naegleria fowleri" -- a brain eating amoeba -- because many people are choosing to irrigate their sinuses incorrectly.
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