guess whos coming to dinner NETI DREAD POT

Can we make this thread a neti pot snot photoblog?

can we derail this into another food discussion?

the answers to both questions are NOSE

hot sauce before neti pot

http://www.bunrab.com/dailyfeed/dailyfeed_images_dec-05/daily_dec03_2005_nose.jpg
SO HOW ABOUT DADDYS VEGAN JERK SPOT?

That's just confusing.

I'm trying to get my former roommate to send me the picture of the chinese dude whose penis got microwaved but he just told me to google for it....

a neti pot could be very useful.

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Abortion%20is%20Murder/aborted_9_week_fetus.jpg

neti pot is just the ear candling of 07/08 winter season.

uhhhhh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutra_neti :X

Severe burn of penis caused by excessive short-wave diathermy

http://www.asiaandro.com/1008-682X/inpress/0520f1.jpg

FUCKING CHINA

r u ok

jon, you realize you're becoming increasingly racist and misogynist with stunning rapidity?

X-NETI-POST

ian shut the fuck up

http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/8388/2pacmeagainsttheworldij2.jpg

neti pot seems like it would be a good idea if you have the snowy sniffles.

I'm not really sure that was racist. I said "China" not "Chinese".

And China's population is comprised of MANY ETHNICITIES

not a man by law
not a man, not a man at all

That's just confusing.

-- Laurel, Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:42 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

i think it's a graft

It's definitely RONG.

what IS it???

JERK SPOT.

am I banned yet?

WAHT IS JERK SPOT?

WH1TE ELEPHANT IN THE R00M

neti sort of works for like a minute after you do it then BACK TO THE SNIFFLES

HNNRRRRRK

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aQm7YpxgOnA

fuck all you neti haters/doubters!

my neti pot broke ;_;

so many memories!

I have a plastic neti pot

http://www.robbierocks.ch/LP%20covers/flying_teapot.f.jpg

i need one, for actual allergy related issues.

are they good for pollen allergies

yes

^^ my problem.

shiiiit i need an office one

Back on the daily pace with this nonsense; beginning to look like it's gonna hafta be twice daily.
Today is FUCKING HORRIBLE

i need to get one of these. yes.

twice daily is normal. first thing you do after you awaken and last thing you do before you go to bed.

you hippies

http://www.fillmyscript.net/images/claritin.gif

i love scenesters who are all loleriffic loudmouth skeptical about shit like religion and psychics and shit but dont think twice about irrigating their nose with a pot or drinking lemon juice for 10 days.

i love morans who think i'd use something like a neti pot if it didn't produce instant results. it's not a fucking belief system or some mumbo jumbo, it's fucking saline. are you questioning the healing properties of saline?

it's like you telling someone you can't believe they floss

i may have decided to try it out, but i have been considering it for about 6 months. i wouldn't exactly call that "not thinking twice."

i love morans who think i'd use something like a neti pot if it didn't produce instant results.

^^ exactly.

it's like you telling someone you can't believe they floss

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee39/samgezee/persianfairyfloss.jpg

i love scenesters who are all loleriffic loudmouth skeptical about shit like religion and psychics and shit but dont think twice about irrigating their nose with a pot or drinking lemon juice for 10 days.

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:54 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this is the thread u want but just stfu anyway

also why the fuck would i want to buy claritin when i can use salt water

claritin helps with my itchy watery eyes but it dries the fuck out of my sinuses making it impossible to blow my nose. so it feels like i have putty in head.

during my mono/sinus-infection i took nasonex, and tore the shit out of my passages

did the amorous, oversized CGI bee have anything to do with tearing the shit out of your passages

yeah wtf isnt he french too

fuck you guys i love that sexy bee

holy shit my wife is certain its the voice of antonios banderas
then i always go LOL u racist

everytime that bee opens his mouth I want to watch the 13th Warrior

HA XPOST.

omg Banderas is the voice of Puss in Boots

this is what I get for not paying attention to the Shrek franchise

He performed a voice-over for a computer-animated bee which can be seen in the United States in television commercials for Nasonex,[7] an allergy medication

guys you are all racist, he IS the voice of that SEXY SEXY bee

Nasonex
Genre: Commercial
Release Date: 01 January 2005

VOICE CREDITS
Character Actor Episode / Addl. Info
Bee Antonio Banderas

antonio bee will srsly tear the shit out of your passages

what i'm saying is

use protection

or, perhaps, a neti pot?

neti douche

the whole banderas thing just made my day of LOLs

i thought it was ricardo montelban, and am a little disappointed

VOICE CREDITS
Character Actor Episode / Addl. Info
Bee Antonio Banderas

-- Mr. Que, Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:51 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

DUDE WTF i call her teh racists because of the faulty assumption that there could be only one spanish voice actor out there in the world. now i am teh racists!

i think we all know who the real RACSIST is on this thread

yeah wtf isnt he french too

-- 69, Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:35 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

RACSYS is actually a mexican IT company

a swarthy, mediterranean sort of bee

I"M NOT RACIEST

Whiney: I'm taking Loratadin, Singulaire, Zyrtec AND the occasional Benadryl and (outside of an airconditioned room) nothing works as well as pouring salt water through my head. It is not fun (i tend to get water stuck in my left sinus and have to work at getting it out for a few minutes after) but I would put EELS IN MY HEAD if it worked and this shit works.

Forks, use hotter water

naw it's probably just that he's THAT congested. too hot is no good, you don't want to scald your nasal cavities...

should be warm, just not HAWT

Scalded Nasal Cavities would be a good death metal band name.

no it wouldn't now go die

how much should a neti pot cost? at whole foods they're $17.

$17 is reasonable

btw it took me three months to get this thread title

ha

http://www.zuckermanpharmacy.com/images/products/big/1002918960cf.gif

use this! (they have it at napoleono drugstore cutty)

ALKALOL?

btw that "persian fairy floss" upthread is a food.

i am quite familiar with alkalol

Neti pot - classic or IN-FUCKING-SANE!

black shit in my nose this morning

someone made tea in jw's neti pot.

sounds like dust/dirt. were you at a bushwick noise show last night?

black shit in my nose this morning

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃

fleas

AJ i think your style is buck wild

jawesome

I know I'm way late to the discussion but I told my husband I thought that bee was Antonio Banderas and he said I was racist too. Ha - I knew it!!

I am also racist against bees

ENBB, uhh.. what city do you live in?

this is just what happens in YOU GOT MAIL right??

ARGH ARGH ARGH

did the neti pot for the first time tonight, now there's water in both my ear canals!!!

did you cover the other nostil when blowing out the nose?

i don't remember if i did that or not. i do remember that i did it 3-4 times for each nostril and that i had a lot of trouble getting it to come out of my nose and not my mouth.

don't do that

pressurizing your nose when blowing is BAD...

oh wait, you're saying blow nose w/o covering the nostrils?

Stage three
Before this stage, a round of both stage one and two is performed. It involves actually taking the water in the mouth and directing it out the nose. Very few yoga instructors know how to do this and it is only a marginal improvement over the benefits of stage two.

am i doing this right?

http://www.yoga-age.com/asanas/photos/sutra.jpg

post pictures of ppl who are not jhoshea

You gotta drain your head fully. Stand on top of a bathroom rug or mat; you're gonna drain a lot of water out of your head. Starting from a standing position and bend over into a jackknife. Take deep breaths through the mouth and exhale slowly and somewhat forcefully (but don't go crazy) through the nose. Do this about seven or eight times or until there's no more water or popping in sinuses. Then raise your head so that you're looking forward and do it again. Then tilt your head to one side for about five to ten seconds and do it again. Then the other side.

Don't BLOW your nose until you've done this once after each nostril. Otherwise you end up vaporizing the water in your sinuses and it pops into your ears and that sucks and can potentially (if done over a considerable period of time, so relax) cause inner ear infections.

wow you sound like a pro. can you give me any tips on the actual neti process?? i'm getting the water to run through pretty quickly but i feel like it's just running *around* the mucus without clearing anything out. more salt? hotter water? more runs?

I've been neti potting for three days to get rid of a cold and I can't tell that it's doing anything. It goes in one nostril and out the other without getting into my mouth, but I can't really feel it moving through my head or clearing out anything.

I'm using a tablespoon of water per pot, with the water hot to the touch but not painfully so. The salt and heat are there to give your body the sensation that this isn't a foreign medium being introduced; you're trying to get a comfortable balance. Depending on how stuffed up you are, you can just keep running water through until you're breathing clearly; as long as you're draining the water thoroughly, it won't do any harm if you do it twenty times a day.

In terms of "feeling like it's working", I'd just go by your ability to breath afterward. If you're still highly allergic afterwards, rinse that sucker once more. I don't think sinus irrigation can get rid of a cold, but constantly flushing the shit out of your head can prevent one from coming. It CAN break down blockage, but I'm not really using it for that. For me, it's about getting out allergens that I've inhaled that are continuing to irritate without breaking blood vessels blowing my nose or having to stand in front of an air conditioner all day.

Anyways, this is just trial and error stuff. People can feel free to refute me.

Sorry, tablespoon of SALT per pot.

I think the amount of salt also depends on what kind it is (table salt versus kosher salt).

I'm using a salt other than NaCl

hippie

first time neti pot this morning!

the pamphlet that came with the pot recommends 1/4 teaspoon of non-iodized salt -- and you say you use a whole tablespoon, forks? that's 12 times that amount!

should be kosher salt or sea salt in the neti pot. 1 whole tablespoon is definitely too much.

i'm gonna drive to half moon bay and get some pacific ocean water for the neti pot

Maybe it's a teaspoon? I got a spoon specifically for this and then forgot about it. i am not a neti dread master. But yeah, I use kosher salt. It's like three bucks for a massive box that lasts forever.

yah, teaspoon for the koshers

well, i def felt better after the neti pot first thing in the morning, but a mere three hours later and i can already feel the nose clogging up again. i guess i'm going to need to take a claritin after the neti just to keep things clear.

Oh yeah, no hippie here: i definitely take medication and neti, not just one or the other. There's no damn way i'm doing this at work.

is "no hippie" like "no homo"?

"that artisinal granola was really tasty, bro, no hippie"

so i was taking a warm bath tonight to try to beat the heat, and i decided to use the neti pot. this is great, i thought, the bathwater is like the perfect temperature. almost exactly my body temperature ...

well, i forgot about the alkalinity of soapy bathwater. and i poured a whole potful of soapy water through my nose before i remembered about it. burning. nose and sinuses are burning.

you put soap in your nose?

just do it again with warm, NON-soapy water! rinse, repeat!!

bathtime haw.

Whiney: I'm taking Loratadin, Singulaire, Zyrtec AND the occasional Benadryl and (outside of an airconditioned room) nothing works as well as pouring salt water through my head.

Have you tried fexofenadine (alegra)? That one works pretty well for me.

you teach science to children?

science != present-mindedness in all things

I think if anything a dude who would do this to himself and then document the results on the internet is exactly the kind of person who should teach science to children. Exploration! Wonder! + HAZARD

i guess only children would need these results documented

gosh jeff, i'm not sure what the problem is

i'm not sure what the your problem is

http://www.netipot.co.uk/images/sickman.jpg

lol my kid has allergies and is now on Zyban, that zasonex bee druyg, some other shit, some antibotic creams, and hes fucking 3 years old.

makes you wonder what kind of cut these doctors get from big pharma.

makes you wonder what kind of cut these doctors get from big pharma.

now that i think about it i havent seen my therapist for 2 years yet he keeps renewing the scrip. dude must be getting something better than an occasional steak dinner.

seriously. when i was a kid my doctor basically refused to prescribe anything unless you were dying (this may or may not have been a good thing considering i should have had a tonsilectomy around age 6 but he never recommended it and i had to go through the pain at 20 instead). now when my parents and sisters go to him, he gives them like, any drug they want.

my doctor gave me shit for not wanting to take claritin ... "you think it's your job to live in misery?" << almost exact quote

Alegra is okay. I'm happy with singulaire and loratadin. It's been a mostly bearable season thus far.

I got a neti pot for dummies (the nasopure, it's just a squirt bottle you fill with water and a salt package then put up your nostril) and the damn thing gets water in my ears. Really uncomfortable. I guess I'm not "blocking my throat" the right way? Helps with the allergies, though.
But I've got ear history (skin graft on my eardrum) and the sever discomfort isn't really worth the benefits of clearer breathing, i think.

i was telling some germans about this on saturday night. at first they didn't understand, then they were like "a ha! ja, NASE DOUCHE!"

But I've got ear history (skin graft on my eardrum) and the sever discomfort isn't really worth the benefits of clearer breathing, i think.

I USED TO MENTION HOW I COULD FEEL THE BROCAINE ITCHING MY EARDRUMS
THEY JUST LAUGHED AT ME
GUESS WHO'S LAUGHING NOW

But I've got ear history (skin graft on my eardrum)

I may have to have this done. Was it horrible? I'm really nervous about it and keep putting it off. :-(

Was it horrible?
I was maybe ten or eleven years old. It really wasn't so bad. My brother kicked me in my head while we were fighting in a swimming pool. The pressure exploded the ear drum. My mom, not realizing the extent of the internal damage, put alcohol drops in my ear. That was the serious pain. All the medical shit didn't seem like a big deal to me. I think it helps that it was the first time I'd ever gone in for surgery. Recovery was a little uncomfortable, I guess. My hearing is really sharp, I find.
If you are having problems, it would probably worth it.

Yeah, you're probably right. I have a hole in my L eardrum from multiple injuries and infections that just won't heal. There's also a cyst there. I've chosen to have it treated medically rather than surgically because the idea of someone going in there just really freaks me out but I should probably just bite the bullet and get it done. Have to have my eardrum "cleaned" with horrible sci-fi looking instruments every couple months is bad enough.

That sounds terrible. If nothing else, at least you are asleep when they do the skin graft.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQm7YpxgOnA

married to the sea isnt funny

i just thought of a neti emoticon

o(O)~

surely someone can make a better one

~~~~~~~~\`( )p

??

c(__)==o 0~~~~~~~~~~~~

c(__)==

right that is the neti pot and o 0 are the nostrils with ~~~~~~ coming out

haha yeah i was just practicing, i guess i couldve not posted that

also i didnt initially see the O RLY nostril stylee - kudos elmo

lol @ practicing
this is a good emoticon tho
c(__)==

unnngh wtf every time i do neti i feel good for about two minutes and then it's back to the sniffles

has anyone tried putting eucalyptus oil or something in the rinsewater

from upthread: breaking blood vessels blowing my nose

i think i've been doing this, every once in a while during the day a bunch of congealed blood comes out on a tissue

maybe i need to neti more often

I need more

i share a bathroom w/ a guy and he kept one of these in the medicine cabinet and until NOW i thought, "why does he keep this tiny teapot in the medicine cabinet? oh well" and i thought a neti pot was like a type of asian food or something :((((((((((((

See also

* Douche
* Enema
* Mouthwash
* Nasal spray
* Snuff

FIRST YESTERDAY, NOW THIS. MY WORLD IS CRUMBLING.

HOW NASAL IRRIGATION INCREASES SINUS INFECTIONS

Like brushing and flossing, nasal and sinus irrigation has become a daily ritual for many people who tend toward chronic nasal problems. Popular wisdom has it that removing mucus daily via nasal irrigation (also called nasal lavage) rids the nose of dust and other pollutants, eliminating a possible breeding ground for germs and infections while also allowing for easier breathing. It seems to make sense -- but does it work? Not at all, according to a new study. In fact, long-term nasal irrigation actuallycontributes to nasal infections.
WHAT’S GOING ON?
Talal M. Nsouli, MD, director of the Watergate and Burke Allergy & Asthma Centers in Washington, DC, has a lengthy résumé that includes having been personal allergist to President Clinton during his two terms, clinical professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and former president of the Greater Washington Asthma, Allergy and Immunology Society. Dr. Nsouli says he began to question whether regular irrigation was helpful or harmful when he saw that patients who practiced regular lavage had nasal linings that looked hard and smooth, "like a piece of plastic." He began to notice the trend toward more use of this practice about seven or eight years ago, and decided to investigate, recruiting 68 patients who had used neti pots for nasal saline irrigation at least twice a day for 10 months or more.
For one year, these patients continued irrigation as before. At the end of the year, they were instructed to suspend nasal irrigation for the next 12 months. Another group of 24 patients who used neti pots daily were used as a control group and monitored for 12 months. The results were startling, even to Dr. Nsouli: Patients who stopped nasal irrigation for one year had a 62% reduction in sinus infections from the previous year -- and got half as many infections when not using sinus irrigation as those in the control group.
According to Dr. Nsouli, mucus contains aggressive antimicrobial agents that have antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activity. One calledlactoferrin, an immune system stimulator, has been shown to be effective against infection, including cold-causing viruses (rhinovirus) and, I was surprised to learn, even the HIV virus. Irrigating the nose regularly washes away the mucus and with it a valuable defense mechanism. When study participants stopped their nasal irrigation routine, they were astounded at how much better they felt and how quickly -- even though it takes two to six weeks to fully restore the natural condition of the nasal passages.
Frequent irrigation does moisten nasal tissues, but this effect lasts just 20 minutes -- in fact, notes Dr. Nsouli, the viscosity of mucus helps the nose stay moist. Some patients experience a yellow-green discharge after giving up lavage, but Dr. Nsouli said this is actually a symptom of a low-grade infection or chronic undiagnosed allergies. He advises them and anyone else with a chronic stuffy nose to see a doctor. Typically, the solution is a course of antibiotics and/or prescription nasal sprays that block symptoms while they improve the condition. Dr. Nsouli points out that it is the practice of rinsing that is problematic, not the solutions used, so this advice applies to over-the-counter nasal sprays as well.
NETI OR NOT?
Nasal lavage grew in popularity after the well-known physician/author Dr. Mehmet Oz sang its praises on Oprah a few years ago. Many adherents use a spouted, urnlike device (it comes from the Ayurvedic tradition) called a neti pot. It gets placed in the nostril and water is poured through it to flush out mucus. While previous studies have supported regular use of the neti pot, Dr. Nsouli says these were based on subjective, self-reported, short-term findings -- unlike his study, which was carefully controlled with objective evidence provided through CT scans of the sinuses, fiber-optic endoscopy and detailed medical histories.
Dr. Nsouli emphasizes that he’s not completely against using the neti pot or any of the many other nasal-lavage devices on the market today including pumps, Waterpic-like devices and OTC saline sprays. In his opinion, these should be used only when specifically needed and for a short time, such as when you have a bad cold that makes it difficult for you to breathe. There also is a risk for contamination of whatever device you use and resultant chronic infections, so be sure to practice good hygiene. Use whatever device you like to wash out the mucus once or twice a day, but for one week only -- that’s what Dr. Nsouli does and what he now advises his patients to do.

Source(s):

Talal M. Nsouli, MD, director of the Watergate and Burke Allergy & Asthma Centers, Washington, DC.

OH NOES SEND NETI POT QUICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

apparently that was ketamine but snorting a line that long of anything would be completely fucktarded

ouch, ketamine fucks you up way more than coke in the short term

i was just gonna say that i'm on the once a day plan with this shit.
Now i don't know what to do.

i was on the 2x a day plan for god knows how long, i have plastic nose

http://browncardigan.com/imagesfarm/wNxEFyFxpOs9ukv.gif

not that anyone cares, but I think i've been doing this every morning for like two years now

I get water in my ears from it and it bugs the shit out of me. I would probably use it every day otherwise.

dear grady: thanks.

i do it too.

answer to not getting water trapped in sinuses/ears: i do fifteen minutes of hamstring/calf/quad stretches and let my head drain out while I'm doing those.
it is unpleasant and it makes getting ready in the morning like an hour long thing but i can breathe and my foot pain is greatly lessened and i have learned to read the new yorker whilst doing all the above and now all these things are linked together in my mind: new yorker interviews/saltwater trickling out of my nose/warrior one pose
try it!

Sounds like more work than I want to put into it but I am willing to give it a shot. Allergy season is upon us.
I should really do more yoga, anyway. Thanks for the tip.

if yer serious about it:
my post neti routine is left leg warrior one for a twenty count, then right leg
then touch yer toes/hang over your knees for a twenty count and twist to left and to right with a ten count apiece
probably TMI, but what happens here is that the saltwater still in your sinuses will move around and drain out while your head is at this acute angle. if that starts happening, just roll with it
then, standing and supporting yourself against a wall, quad stretch. Heel into buttock, stand erect and try to draw your knee as far back behind you as you semi comfortably can.
Do all the above five times. Generally i can get through a complete New Yorker article and a review/GOAT.
NEVER NEVER BLOW YOUR NOSE until after you're done with all the above; the water atomizes and clogs yer ears up.
i would like to point out that i hate doing this shit. but i also don't enjoy flossing and i do that anyway cuz i like to not get my teeth drilled. I also like to breathe and walk without pain. It's worth the time and it becomes a habit if you do it for about four months religiously.
i am late to work a lot.

one time i went surfing at dawn for a few hours then went straight to a 9:30 AM hot yoga class. about 20 mins into class we had to bend at the waist and invert our upper body touch-your-toes style. i had been feeling a little stuffy all morning but as soon as i inverted, all this seawater that had been lodged in my sinuses came POURING out all over my face and onto my yoga mat, and a lot of mucus came with it. i had to leave class and go blow my nose for a while but i felt rad after that!

THE OCEAN IS MY NETI POT YALL

this may be a given, but this is a warrior one stance: http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/1708
you ain't gotta do all that with the upper body (and i don't cuz you can't read) but it helps increase the stretch

I love to floss. I will give this a shot. My allergies are pretty bad.

keep me posted.
this plus loratadin and singulaire finally tamed seasonal allergies that demolished my college years