Re: a neti pot with salty water

[Guest guest]

I have heard to use Xylitol as well in the Neti

solution. Xylitol is a excellent bacteria killer.

What I don't know is what the Xylitol to water

solution should be. Does anyone know?

D

--- Marty Cline <stompingelk@...> wrote:

> GABY HAKMAN worked as a chef in professional

> kitchens

> in Miami for nearly 20 years, standing in the vacuum

> of powerful venting fans, inhaling smoke. But she

> had

> even bigger nasal challenges ahead. “I work as a

> personal chef now, which is a lot less toxic, but I

> also moved to New York City, and because of the

> city’s

> pollutants and dry heat I developed painfully dry

> sinuses,” Ms. Hakman said.

>

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>

>

> YouTube

> DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME Neti pots are now so

> mainstream, they are the stuff of jokes. An Ohio man

> called Drew, right, spoofs them on a popular YouTube

> video.

> Seeking the advice of a masseuse and acupuncturist,

> Jana Warchalowski, Ms. Hakman was urged to try

> something she didn’t even want to think about. “Jana

> said she had two words for me: neti pot,” Ms. Hakman

> said. “I’d heard about it before. I just kept

> thinking, ‘No way, that’s gross.’”

>

> But this fall, Ms. Hakman relented.

>

> “I went out and bought a pretty little ceramic neti

> pot from Whole Foods,” she said. “I’ve used it every

> day since. Now, I can breathe again. It’s even

> gotten

> rid of the bags under my eyes.”

>

> Originally part of a millennia-old Indian yogic

> tradition, the practice of nasal irrigation — jala

> neti — is performed with a small pot that looks like

> a

> cross between Aladdin’s lamp and your grandmother’s

> gravy boat. The neti pot made its way into this

> country in the early 1970s as a yoga meditation

> device, but even as yoga became mainstream, the neti

> pot remained on the fringes of alternative culture.

>

> That is, until now. Due to a confluence of

> influences,

> the neti pot is having what can only be termed a

> moment, sold in drugstores, health food stores, even

> at Wal-Mart and Walgreens.

>

> The practice gained wide exposure last spring when

> it

> was introduced on Oprah Winfrey’s show by a frequent

> guest, Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and

> an

> author of health books. Dr. Oz explained that

> bathing

> the sinus cavities in a warm saline solution can

> reduce symptoms of allergies, cold, flu and other

> nasal problems.

>

> He called upon a chronic sinusitis sufferer,

> identified as Amy from Texas, to demonstrate the

> neti

> pot. “Welcome to your nose bidet,” Ms. Winfrey said

> enthusiastically as the woman inserted the spout of

> a

> ceramic pot into one nostril, tilted her head and

> let

> a solution of non-iodized salt and water flow up her

> nose and out the other nostril.

>

> A month later, in a follow-up, Amy spoke by phone on

> air and reported she’d used a neti pot every day

> since, with happy results. She had not had a single

> sinus headache, she said.

>

> A star was born.

>

> The neti pot became a hot topic online, featured in

> blogs and daily journals, chatted about on message

> boards, demonstrated in some 60 YouTube videos. It

> was

> billed as a cure-all to ward off cold or flu,

> improve

> a sense of smell or taste, sharpen vision and even

> reduce snoring. “Nose bidet” became one of the most

> popular topics searched on Google.

>

> Neither Whole Foods Market, where neti pots have

> been

> sold nationwide for almost a decade, nor the

> Himalayan

> Institute, one of the largest retail and wholesale

> distributors of neti pots in the United States,

> would

> disclose sales figures, but representatives of each

> company said that after the Oprah shows there were

> sharp spikes in demand.

>

> Jan Mathews, the chief executive of East West

> Living,

> a seller of spiritual books and supplies with a

> store

> in Manhattan, said: “After Oprah, we went from

> selling

> dozens of neti pots a week to dozens a day, and sold

> out. For two weeks we couldn’t restock fast enough.

> It

> may have started with Oprah, but then it became word

> of mouth.”

>

> In December, Ms. Mathews began in-store neti pot

> demonstrations in the store’s cafe four times a

> week.

> “There’s a growing clamor for natural alternatives

> to

> cold and allergy medicines,” she said. “In my demo,

> there may be about a dozen or so people in

> attendance,

> but sometimes I’ll look up and realize the whole

> rest

> of the cafe is watching.”

>

> PROMOTERS of the neti pot link it to other methods

> of

> purifying and detoxifying the body that have become

> popular at spas and from providers of alternative

> health care, procedures like seaweed facials, liver

> flushes and coffee enemas.

>

> Few if any Western medical schools teach the use of

> the neti pot. But Dr. Bradley Marple, the chairman

> of

> the rhinology and paranasal sinus committee for the

> American Academy of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck

> Surgery, said that nasal irrigation is a well-known

> remedy for various respiratory complaints.

>

> “There are an estimated billion viral episodes of

> the

> upper respiratory tract a year,” said Dr. Marple, a

> professor of otolaryngology at the University of

> Texas

> Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.

>

> “Studies indicate that saline nasal irrigation is a

> highly effective, minimally invasive intervention

> for

> people suffering from nasal issues,” Dr. Marple

> said.

> “But it’s just not as sexy to talk about. People

> want

> to hear about surgery or antibiotics.”

>

> He added that there are many commercially available

> products that deliver a saline solution to the nasal

> area, including squeeze bottles and spray cans. They

> may be more convenient than using a neti pot, he

> said,

> but because of its gentler pressure, a neti pot can

> be

> an advantage for patients who suffer ear discomfort

> due to pressure.

>

> Amy Neunsinger of Los Angeles, a commercial and

> fashion photographer, says she’s made using it fun

> for

> her toddler son.

>

> “Last year when he had a sinus infection, instead of

> putting him on antibiotics as the doctor

> recommended,

> I had him try the neti pot,” Ms. Neunsinger said.

> “He

> was 3. I told him, ‘Hold your breath, just like in

> swimming lessons,’ and he tried it and it worked. He

> felt so much better, and his infection went away

> quickly on its own.”

>

> “Now, we do it together once a week,” she said. “He

> loves to tear open the little packets of salt and

> mix

> it up.”

>

> One user’s neti pot video has had nearly a

> quarter-million views on YouTube. In the video, “How

> to Irrigate Your Nasal Passages,” a cartoonist from

> Ohio who goes by the name Drew, demonstrates (to a

> song titled “I Like to Watch the Rain Come Down”)

> how

> to use a neti pot with salty water, then with black

> coffee, then with Kentucky bourbon, exploding with

> an

> expletive a millisecond before the video snaps off.

>

> In an e-mail message, Drew, 28, wrote: “I haven’t

> had

>

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