How to properly wash your nose

When working with high dust, with chronic rhinitis, during the epidemic of colds and flu, it is useful at home to wash the nose. For this you can buy a mug of Esmarch with a tube in the pharmacy. The tip that is sold in the kit is not needed, but a special tip in the form of an olive is necessary, better made of steel. The maximum diameter of the tip is 2 cm, the minimum diameter is 1 cm, the internal channel, which passes through - 4 mm.

In the clinic, you can wash the nose for the first time. There physicians can show how to properly wash your nose so that complications do not develop.
With difficulty breathing through the nose, it is more practical to drip vasodilating drops to improve nasal breathing 15 minutes before rinsing. In the bathroom , hang Esmarch's mug over the sink, pour in a half liter of the solution, adjust the tap with a slow flow of liquid through the tube. Then insert the olive into one nostril so that the liquid does not leach, tilt your head over the sink, breathe with your mouth open and pronounce the sound of A.

The liquid will slowly flow through one nostril, wash the nose and flow through another nostril. Do not let the fluid run under pressure and at high speed, so as not to provoke otitis. Repeat the same with another nostril.
After the procedure you can not blow your nose 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 properly wash your nose, and do it every day in the absence of contraindications, so that for a long time you do not have catarrhal diseases.

At home, to wash the nose, you can prepare a salt solution yourself. To do this, take 15 g of table salt per 1 liter of water, the temperature of the human body. You can use pharmacy saline, saline, aqual.
Parents always need to know how to properly wash the nose of a child, because it is small children often get cold and they find it difficult to breathe. For newborns pharmacies sell the device Aqualor Baby, with which you can rinse and clean the mucus from the baby's nose. Washing is performed with a sterile solution in the supine position on the side, and the liquid is carefully aspirated in the upright position of the baby.

Children under the age of 4 can be washed at home using two syringes. This procedure can be performed by a mother trained to properly wash the nose without complications. To do this, put the child on its side, lay the oilcloth under the head, slowly pour in the lower nostril, squeezing a small syringe 30 ml. Immediately suck the fluid out with another syringe, inserted into the same nostril in a compressed form, with which you need to gently pull it out, draw in the liquid.

Children older than 4 years can be washed with the nose complex Dolphin, and to interest the child to use the game moments well. It is necessary to 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 liquid stops flowing out of the other nostril. Remove from the nose, only then unscrew the container. Rest and open mouth to blow out the liquid from the nose, easily, without effort. Repeat the procedure on the other side. Then ask to take a deep breath again, and hold your breath for a while . During this time, insert a compressed pear into the right nostril, clamp the left nostril and unclamp the pear to remove excess liquid from the nose. Do the same with the left side 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 seawater has only natural substances in its composition and does not contain chemical impurities, and the liquid flows by gravity into the nose, without creating pressure.

Even knowing how to properly rinse your nose, it is important to observe the necessary recommendations:
1. Flaunt only with an open mouth to avoid pressure on the tympanic membrane.
2. The procedure should be performed half an hour before bedtime, because the liquid in the nasal cavity may remain after the end of 15-20 minutes.
3. In frosty days for the same reason, it is not necessary to conduct the procedure before going out. It is worth to rest at home for at least an hour.
4. All movements with a pear to spend slowly and smoothly, not to create pressure and not to injure a mucous nose.

It is important to remember that, even knowing how to properly wash your nose, and following all the necessary precautions, there are contraindications for carrying out this procedure. In no case should this be done with bleeding from the nose, with polyps, injuries and tumors of the septum, with adenoids of the third degree in the child.