i have herd a few people praise saline nasal spray for blocked e tubes. mine arent totally blocked just feel pressured alot and ache at times!
Cant handle sudafed!
Can saline help?
Also if i can not take sudafed what do you think the doc will do next?

Hi,

Instead of saline sprays...try a nasal lavage. Purchase a baby suction bulb and use it to squirt saline solution into the nostrils. Mix a half teaspoon of salt into a cup of warm water. Fill the bulb. Lean your head over the sink to the left. Squirt the solution into the right nostril. Repeat it with your head leaning over to the right and squirting it into the left nostril. Then do it with the head to the left and squirt into the left nostril, repeat it to the right.

After you blow your nose...you'll hear popping in your ears...that's clearing out the eustachian tubes. I can hear ever so clearly after that!

You can do this once or twice a day, but know that the salt can actually cause drying of the passages. If it irritates too much, just do it once a day for a while. If you use less salt, the water will sting the passages also. Too much salt will as well.

Sudafed does work great, too bad you can't use it.

Let me know how it works out for you.

quincy

Hi,

Instead of saline sprays...try a nasal lavage. Purchase a baby suction bulb and use it to squirt saline solution into the nostrils. Mix a half teaspoon of salt into a cup of warm water. Fill the bulb. Lean your head over the sink to the left. Squirt the solution into the right nostril. Repeat it with your head leaning over to the right and squirting it into the left nostril. Then do it with the head to the left and squirt into the left nostril, repeat it to the right.

After you blow your nose...you'll hear popping in your ears...that's clearing out the eustachian tubes. I can hear ever so clearly after that!

You can do this once or twice a day, but know that the salt can actually cause drying of the passages. If it irritates too much, just do it once a day for a while. If you use less salt, the water will sting the passages also. Too much salt will as well.

Sudafed does work great, too bad you can't use it.

Let me know how it works out for you.

quincy

I am bummed about the sudafed! one day it makes me tired the next it makes my heart beet mad!! as i am an anxious person this drives me nutty!!

When you say 'a cup' how much is that? in ml. Also is it safe to do that, incase water gets stuck in the tubes. Just checking.

I also found a product called 'otigesic' it has a pain reliever, antisetic and decongestant (phenylephrine) in it!! its ear drops!

Why did the doc not give me those i wonder? have you herd of them? i would prefer to use something like that! sounds like what i need!

Claire :) :bouncing:

Hi, the cup I use is 250 ml. My doctor told me to do it....if you're not comfortable with the bulb, try sucking it in by your nostrils. Plug one side and suck in (not breathe in)...it'll go down your throat, but it's a muscle control thing to snork it out afterward....eeewwwww!. Do the same with the other nose.

The water's never gotten stuck in the tubes after doing it...it feels really good after blowing (not too hard, tho).

You don't have many choices. That one's as old as the hills and done loooooong ago.


I've never heard of the ear drops you're talking about. It makes sense since mucous membranes absorb meds. Please check the side effects for the phenylephedrine (or is that what nasal decongestant sprays have in them?). Interesting....I'll check it out.

Hope you get some relief.

quincy

Hi, the cup I use is 250 ml. My doctor told me to do it....if you're not comfortable with the bulb, try sucking it in by your nostrils. Plug one side and suck in (not breathe in)...it'll go down your throat, but it's a muscle control thing to snork it out afterward....eeewwwww!. Do the same with the other nose.

The water's never gotten stuck in the tubes after doing it...it feels really good after blowing (not too hard, tho).

You don't have many choices. That one's as old as the hills and done loooooong ago.


I've never heard of the ear drops you're talking about. It makes sense since mucous membranes absorb meds. Please check the side effects for the phenylephedrine (or is that what nasal decongestant sprays have in them?). Interesting....I'll check it out.

Hope you get some relief.

quincy

I will see if i can do it, the whole cup do you say!!
That stuff is the nasal spray stuff. its in pills too! but i suppose the pills give you more side effects as they reach the whole body, the ear drops dont have many side effects apart from an itching feeling for a while.
Theya re also called tympagesic, i really want to know about them.

Claire :)