What if I’m Travelling and Feel Like I’m Getting a Sinusitis?

Hi everybody। Today I’m going to talk about what you can do when you’re away from your kitchen or bathroom, away from home, and you know you’ve introduced foreign materials into your sinuses and you need to wash it out in a hurry, but you don’t have your nasal irrigator handy.

So today what I’m going to talk about is these little saline nasal spray bottles। I will typically keep one of these in my vehicles, or if I’m travelling I’ll keep it in a backpack. I know lots of times when I go south of the border, I’m riding round in one of these open-air vehicles, and they don’t have the pollution controls we have here in the States, sometimes I feel like if I don’t do something I’m going to have a sinus infection coming on in a big hurry. So what I do is use these spray bottles sort of like a nasal irrigator. The problem is they don’t really irrigate as well, they spray a very thin aerosol of saline into your sinuses, and you squirt a couple up there but it’s not as effective as actual nasal irrigation, which really washes it out. So I recommend that you use a lot of this and just wash your sinuses out as much as possible. Check out the video for more details.

The other tip I have on this, if you remember GSE from my previous post, is that I actually introduce one drop of GSE into this bottle of generic nasal moisturizing spray. You can make your own, it’s just warm filtered water with salt, they call it saline and it’s the same pH as your body. I label it “GSE” with a magic marker, to show that it has GSE in it. This is a savior for me when I’m way from my nasal irrigator, it’s a great tip, and I highly recommend you use it.

My main website has more tips. I also now have pages at Wetpaint, Weebly, and Squidoo that offer tips for preventing sinusitis.