Breathe in PM2.5 dust until you feel a burning nose and nasal congestion. Let’s try to get rid of nasal congestion by rinsing your nose properly.
Rinsing your nose is beneficial to our body, especially during a time when the air is full of pollution like today. It makes many people feel a burning nose and stuffy nose, so let’s go so far as to sting their throats. Therefore, in order to alleviate the above discomfort. We have a way to wash your nose to reduce PM2.5 dust and pollution.
Benefits of nasal rinsing
Nasal irrigation is considered to clean the nasal cavity by flushing out mucus, pus, and dirt in the nasal cavity, helping to relieve nasal congestion, itching, sneezing, runny nose, nasal sting, nasal pain, or sinus pain.
Pollution, dust, Allergens, irritants, and substances caused by the body’s reaction to allergens in the nasal cavity. In addition, rinsing the nose can also help prevent the spread of germs from the nose and sinuses to the middle ear or down to the lungs.
How to wash your nose correctly
* Prepare equipment
– Plastic syringe size 5-10-20 ml.
– Saline solution with a concentration of 0.9% (0.9% NaCl or 0.9% NSS) which can be purchased at general pharmacies or if you want to make your own saline nasal rinse, boil 1 bottle of Mekong tap water (750 cc) to boil. After that, add 1 teaspoon of table salt or salt used for cooking and stir well, then turn off the heat and leave to warm (homemade brine should be used day by day, do not boil overnight).
A bowl for salt water and a basin for handling salt water from the nose.
How to rinse your nose
1. Pour the brine into a wide-mouth container, then heat it in the microwave
. Use a saline syringe to suck up about 5 cc of saline for children and 10-15 cc for adults, then spray the saline solution on the back of the palm of your hand to test the temperature.
3 . Lean forward and bend your head slightly, then poke the tip of the syringe into one
nostril. 4. Open your mouth, breathe in your lungs fully, and block your breathing
. Wait until the saline has completely flowed out of the nose and mouth, then breathe normally
. Rinse your nose again or until you feel clear or until the saline solution is clear as when you injected it.
