Saline Solution

I have a sensitive nose and sadly, my two kids take after me. As soon as we wake up each day, there would be a chorus of sneezes from all of us. We are easily affected by dust, dust mites, temperature changes, you name it. Sometimes, during flu season, I think we scare the people around us. They think we’re spreading flu germs with our sneezes and sniffles.

We can’t do much about it accept try to make ourselves a little bit more comfortable and reduce it somewhat by using saline solution. It is the same advice we get from several physicians or even specialists that we see. We breathe in the saline solution, gargle with it and wash our noses with it. I even have a netti pot, which I will talk about in another post. It is very important to use sterile saline solutions since we wash our noses with it.

Sometimes we mix our own saline solution. At other times, we get store bought ones. However, the nasal saline solutions are somewhat more expensive then those used for eyes, you know, the saline solution that people use for cleaning out and soaking their contact lenses like the Blairex Saline Solution. So, sometimes we buy those.

Saline solutions has many uses. You can even use it for wound washes. SterileSalineSolution.org has those available for wound washes for cleaning wounds, scrapes and burns. It is useful to have a bottle or two around with kids in the house.