When working with high dust, in chronic rhinitis, during the epidemic of colds and flu, it is useful to carry out a nose wash at home. To do this, you can buy a Esmarch mug with a tube at the pharmacy. The tip, which is sold in the kit, is not needed, but a special tip in the form of olive need to be made, it is better from steel. The maximum diameter of the tip is 2 cm, the minimum is 1 cm, the internal channel that runs through is 4 mm.
In the clinic, you can conduct a nose wash for the first time. There, doctors can show how to properly rinse your nose so that complications do not develop.
If breathing is difficult through the nose, it’s more practical to drip vasodilator drops to improve nasal breathing 15 minutes before washing. In the bathroom, Esmarch’s mug should be hung over the sink, pour half a liter of solution into it, and use a faucet to adjust the slow flow of liquid through the tube. Then insert the olive into one nostril so that the liquid does not leak, tilt your head over the sink, breathe with your mouth open and make a sound A.
The fluid will slowly flow through one nostril, wash the nose and flow out through the other nostril. Do not let fluid under pressure and at high speed so as not to provoke otitis media. Repeat the same with the other nostril.
After the procedure, you can not blow your nose for half an hour, it is easy enough to blow out the liquid from the nose alternately from each nostril. It is enough to know how to rinse the nose correctly, and do it daily in the absence of contraindications, so that you do not get colds for a long time.
At home, for washing the nose, you can prepare a saline solution yourself. To do this, take 15 g of table salt per 1 liter of water, human body temperature. You can use pharmacy saline, saline, aqualor.
Parents always need to know how to rinse their baby's nose properly, because it is small children who often catch a cold and find it difficult to breathe. For newborns in pharmacies they sell the Aqualor Baby device , with which you can rinse and clean the baby's nose from mucus. Rinsing is performed with a sterile solution in the supine position, and the liquid is carefully aspirated in the vertical position of the baby.
Children under 4 years old can be washed at home with two syringes. This mother can perform this procedure, trained to properly rinse her nose without complications. To do this, put the child on its side, lay an oilcloth under the head, slowly pour the solution into the lower nostril, squeezing a small syringe of 30 ml. Immediately suck out the liquid with another syringe, inserted into the same nostril in a compressed form, with which you must carefully, letting go of it, draw in the liquid.
For children over 4 years old, nose washing can be done with the Dolphin complex, and in order to interest the child it is good to use game moments. We must ask the child to bend over the sink, take a deep breath, then hold his breath and close his eyes. At this time, insert the device into one nostril and slowly squeeze it until the fluid stops flowing out of the other nostril. Remove from the nose, only then release the container. To relax and with an open mouth to blow out the fluid from the nose, easily, effortlessly. Repeat the procedure on the other side. Then ask again to take a deep breath, and briefly hold your breath. During this time, insert a compressed pear into the right nostril, pinch the left nostril and open the pear to remove excess fluid from the nose. Do the same with the left half of the nose.
Very convenient to use Aqua Maris devices that are used for children and pregnant women. Their convenience is due to the fact that sea water contains only natural substances and does not contain chemical impurities, and the fluid flows by gravity into the nose without creating pressure.
Even knowing how to rinse your nose, it is important to follow the necessary recommendations:
1. Only open mouth with mouth to avoid pressure on the eardrum.
2. The procedure should be carried out half an hour before bedtime, because the fluid in the nasal cavity may remain after the end of another 15-20 minutes.
3. On frosty days for the same reason, it is not necessary to carry out the procedure before going out. It is worth relaxing at home for at least an hour.
4. All movements with a pear should be carried out slowly and smoothly so as not to create pressure and not to injure the nasal mucosa.
It is important to remember that, even knowing how to rinse your nose, and observing all the necessary precautions, about the existence of contraindications for this procedure. In no case should this be done for nosebleeds, for polyps, injuries and tumors of the septum, for grade 3 adenoids in a child.