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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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***Lisa in Oz***
Hey Lisa,
Have you heard of the neti pot? One of my friends suggested it for my sinus infection and I must say, it works wonders. It's kinda weird - you pour a saline solution into one nostril and it fills up your sinuses and pours out the other nostril. But it really helps to clear out the junk in there and take away sinus pressure, if that's what you're experiencing from your allergies. Hope you feel better! (And btw, my doc said sudafed is okay. But I'm not sure which kind is okay since there are so many types now, so I stuck to tylenol and the neti pot.)
Re: ***Lisa in Oz***
Yes! I totally recommend this! I use the one made by SinuCleanse but you can find them in any natural food shop or even regular drug/pharmacy stores.
I have seasonal Fall allergies and this is what I have been using once or twice a day to keep my nose clear. I was desperate last week and took some Robitussin DM (on my doc's safe list), but I also prefer to avoid taking anything while I am PG, if I can avoid it.
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I have heard of it, and the people that use them seem to like them a lot! I'm using a saline nasal spray, which I'm assuming does pretty much the same thing? My allergies here usually last from Oct-Feb (horrible, I know), so I may give the neti pot a shot when my current spray runs out since it will be cheaper than buying bottle after bottle of spray.
My doc also OK'd paracetamol, so I'm taking that to combat the headaches that I get at the same time - it doesn't really drive away the allergies, but it relieves a few of the symptoms at least.
Really? When I use the spray, I can feel it clear out the gunk and the spray trickles down the back of my throat (sorry if that's gross
).
I'm going shopping for some clothes over the weekend - there's a natural food shop in the same shopping center, so I'll check there!
**jumping in late and uninvited**
Not sure what the original post about your sinuses was, so I'm making an assumption that you're having nose problems.
One side effect of pregnancy for me was nasal congestion, weird I know. I thought I had a cold, nope, tried the neti pot, didn't work, breathe right strips, negitive and thought it would pass, again, fail.
My dr. told me the congestion was simply because I was pg. Similar to how your joints swell from increased blood flow and water retention, so do your capillaries in your nose, making your nostrils sorta smaller. Oh, and on top of that, Denver is a high dessert so I had the pleasure of dealing with extremely dry air AND less of it! I couldn't breath right for my entire pregnancy. And surprise surprise, it went away days after my little person was born.
One thing that I was able to get a minisule amount of releif from was sucking on a Halls drop combined with saline spray (Ayr, I think). Of course you'll want to check w/ your dr.
So, if your nose probs are pg related, you might just have to deal for the long haul
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