It causes these blood vessels to constrict, which reduces nasal Summertime weather means picnics, lake trips, hiking, and just generally enjoying the outdoors. But having summer allergies can throw a curve on your warm weather fun. There are two main Babies are much more sensitive than adults or even children, so can the same practices be used?
According to parents. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign Up! Are there dangers of neti pots? Related Articles. Nasal xylitol and asthma study 0 Comments By Dr. Submit a Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. These products, which are non-GMO, are a renewable resource, which would be otherwise wasted at the end of a harvest season.
Are extraction process uses no corn grains, and ensures that no allergens from corn occur in the final products. Using corn fibers that take 5 months to grow is a much more sustainable and replenishable source for xylitol than using trees that require 20 years or more to grow.
Xylitol is recommended by dentists, medical doctors, periodontists, pediatricians, and many health organizations and health professionals worldwide as a sweetener for anyone concerned with dental health, upper respiratory health, and sugar consumption in general.
The key to getting the greatest benefit from xylitol is to use it consistently and often, so it stays in contact with your teeth, mouth, and nasal passages. Look for products that use xylitol as the principal or only sweetener, and products that encourage chewing or sucking to keep it in contact with your teeth. Studies show that 4 to 5 daily applications of xylitol per day are very effective.
Many of the studies have shown that it is important that it be the major or only sweetener in the products, because the addition of other sweeteners often reduces the effectiveness of xylitol. If used only occasionally or as little as just once a day, the results may NOT be as effective, regardless of the amount.
Therefore it is best to use at least three, and preferably five times every day. Use immediately after eating or snacking. If xylitol is the only sugar remaining in the mouth, most bacteria cannot metabolize it and will not be able to make the acids or biofilm that can attack teeth. If you have more questions about how to use any of our products, please contact Xlear. Just boil your tap water for 5 mins, add the ingredients while hot to help them dissolve more easily and cool to room temperature, you cane chill it down to help reduce swelling too.
Sounds right. My Grossan has a 16 oz container for irrigation. It's also really important not to over do it and dry everything out thus opening the door for more infections. I'm new to the xylitol and going to try it and the grapefruit extract.
Tried the surgery septoplasty and removal of polyps, bone spur and necrodial tissues which was good for a couple of years and now I'm back to regular infections. Have the polyps returned? I will check with ENT but I also know non of the antibiotics Biaxin, Levoquin etc work any longer and are doing more harm to the rest of me than not. Trial and error. Good luck to all.
Lucinda Kempe. I apparently got a bad reaction from using xylitol sinus rinse for about 3 weeks to cure a persistent fungal sinus infection: sore throat, earaches, slight cough, chest pain. However, I still have the sore throat and other problems. Any idea how to get rid of the sore throat, earaches and other problems caused by xylitol? Anonymous, Your "bad reaction" was probably the result of the infection more likely bacterial and not fungal that had been residing in your sinuses now being flushed out by the xylitol.
I've had congested sinuses for 15 years. It's really entrenched in there and I've tried many rinses, antibiotics, etc. Now I'm using the xylitol, I feel the irritation on the back of my throat as it flushes the mucus out.
I find that following up with the xylitol mist during the day helps a lot. I'm putting 3 drops of hydrogen peroxide into each ear twice a day as a precautionary measure, because I've read that any rinse can spread the infection to the ears. The fact that you're symptoms are persisting after the xylitol convinces me even more that you have a lot to flush out and the xylitol has started the process. If you don't want to go back to xylitol, perhaps you can try a saline rinse like Neilmed and hydrogen peroxide gargles and drops in the ears until your sinuses stop flushing.
If I were you, though, I'd keep up the xylitol to speed up the process. I have been using Xlear for quite some time now, so was very excited to find this recipe.
I made it for the first time several months ago complex recipe, because it seemed closest to the Xlear ingredients list and I use it every morning and evening, or more frequently if I think I feel a cold coming on. It is awesome! I haven't had a cold all winter.
I'm quite certain that this is part of the reason, along with a grass fed and organic diet, of course. I hope you're right that I didn't have a bad reaction to xylitol as I am starting to use Xlear again. I thought that it had cleared up my sinus infection but it seems to only have killed off the infection in the left side of my sinuses and I have been having pain in the right side.
Previously the infection seemed to be concentrated in the left side with little problem in the right side. However, I don't think it's bacterial since I have not had a fever at all. And I'm pretty sure it is fungal since I breathed some dust when I was pulling nails out of our deck to replace them with screws. It was a strange dust like nothing I have seen before and the nails had a bad looking deposit on them. I should have worn a mask to keep from breathing the dust. Yes Anonymous March 11, , it was my goofs, not adequately cleaning my NeilMed squeeze bottle, otherwise I simply spread the fungal sinus infection to other and all my sinuses causing the sinus headaches, earaches, aches in the temple areas, sore throat and coughs.
Once I learned that I should use the liquid dishwashing soap and also a bottle brush to clean the squeeze bottle, I carefully cleaned my NeilMed squeeze bottle and my sinus infection cleared up quickly, in two or three days.
So I suffered for months, reinfecting my sinuses because I did not adequately clean the squeeze bottle. Perhaps the salt and sodium bicarbonate sinus rinse would have killed off my sinus infection and perhaps the xylitol wasn't necessary, but I'll never know, since my sinus infection is over and gone.
I am feeling very dumb and terribly embarrassed that I missed the NeilMed instructions and did not realize that it was necessary to thoroughly clean the squeeze bottle. I'm glad I found this site, and maybe some of you can weigh in on your experiences relative to mine. When I was young pre , I had no allergies. I began having seasonal allergies in my 20s and then basically year-round allergies at some point after that.
Eventually I got a sinus infection that lasted about 3 months in and it was basically the worst I've ever felt. I didn't know anything about sinus cleansing at that time and the doctor just gave me various different antibiotics, the last of which levaquin worked. He then put me on nasonex and clarinex-d to treat my symptoms.
My allergies are pretty much in check, but I have not been able to smell very well for years. If I run or do heavy exercise, I can smell pretty well for a short while, but apart from that, basically I have to really breathe in a lot of air to get the smell of something, and that doesn't always work.
Naturally my sense of taste is dulled proportionately. What I want to know is, would rinsing with any of these solutions help this problem? Also, what is the most likely cause of this problem? It is not like my olfactory sense doesn't work; it works, but only if my nasal passages open up or I get a large volume of air through them. Any experience with this problem? Please correct your recipe s.
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