General Tips Sinuses

• One should always:
  • Wash their hands thoroughly
  • Social distancing if one has a serious infection
  • Isolate oneself if one has a serious infection

• Always carry tissues with you
• Dispose tissue and wipe surfaces when necessary.
• Avoid crowded areas
• Avoid smoky or heavily polluted irritant areas
• Drink plenty of water (avoid coffee, tea, fizzy drinks, alcohol drinks) to prevent dehydration.
• Drink plenty of warm drinks and fluids if appropriate.
  (Steam helps to unlock nose)
• Keep your room well ventilated. Keep window open for air circulation
• Nasal douching: sniffing a solution to help unblock one’s nose.

• • One teaspoon of salt and one teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate in a pint of water (that has been boiled and cooled to room temperature) to each nostril from a cupped handle allowing it to go down the back of your throat and spitting it out.
  • Not all the mixture should be used, four sniffs two to three times daily.
  • Do douching before if using nasal drops/sprays.

• Saline solution and oil based decongestants may help.
• A hot shower will relieve pain, promote drainage, and open up the sinus cavities.
• Reduce facial pain and swelling by applying a warm compress to your face.
• Raise your pillows in bed by a few inches allows you to breathe.
• For babies, tickling the nose with a cotton bud to aid sneezing just before feeding
• Air conditioned rooms can dry ones sinus and make sinus symptoms worst.
• If a smoker, consider to stop smoking.
• Allergy tips
• Hay fever tips

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Natural treatments and tips (DR Axe)

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How to use:

Nasal drops

• To lie on their back with the head just off the bed and tilted so the chin is highest point of the head.
• Patients should breathe normally through the mouth while instilling the prescribed number of drops into each nostril (see Image 2). Administration of drops while sitting or standing with the head tilted backwards causes more solution to pass down the back of the throat;
• To hold this position for two minutes after drop instillation. This enables the steroid to reach the region where polyps arise and reduce inflammation where the sinuses open into the nasal cavity;
• If multi-dose, manufacturers recommend that the dropper should be cleaned by wiping the nozzle with a clean tissue before replacing the cap.
• It is important to understand that nasal sprays and drops are not always effective at reaching the sinuses, even post-surgery, and this has lead some rhinologists to advise combining nasal drops with saline irrigation.
• It is the larger volume that improves penetration to the sinuses.