Shooting salt water up my nose everyday & feeling good! Anybody else doing this?

[divepsych]

A few years ago I did a study for Dr. Mehta with his high volume positive pressure buffered saline nasal/sinus irrigation SinusRinse bottle kits as a replacement for decongestants like Sudafed/Afrin in scuba divers who usually used decongestants every day they dove. There was a dramatic decrease in the need for and use of decongestants. You can find the report on my website www.divepsych.com

NeilMed Pharm has been sending me or others to DEMA Show and regional dive shows for several years and we have given away 1000's of free physician sample bottle kits. The response has been very enthusiastic and gratifying. It does not help everyone, just most. If you've ever had allergies or sinus problems like I have, then you know what a relief it can be, not just in diving.

Earlier this month I was with NAI'A in Fiji with Stan Waterman and he now swears by it after many years of chronic sinus problems. Martha Gilkes and I took underwater photos to send to NeilMed. SinusRinse is available OTC all over the USA and I think there is a discount coupon on the company website: www.NeilMed.com

If anyone has any questions, then please contact me at 1-877-265-8273 or dfcolvard@gmail.com. I also use it with lots of my own patients.

 

[divepsych]

You'll get even better results with the NeilMed SinusRinse postive pressure bottle kit.

 

[tridacna]

Full disclosure please: Are you being paid by NeilMed or is this an unbiased opinion? Just curious.

Also interested to hear why a psychiatrist is using a sinus rinse with their patients? Does it also help clearing their minds? I had no idea that divers with sinus problems saw a shrink.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

According to the website he posted..."Financial Disclosure: Dr. Colvard is a consultant to NeilMed Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of SINUS RINSE ™ Nasal Rinse Kit."

personally, I love the NeilMed product and have been using it regularly this year and have not suffered a cold yet! Usually I am loaded up on cold remedies and allergy meds during the winter with its wild changes in temps.

 

[lulubelle]

According to the website he posted..."Financial Disclosure: Dr. Colvard is a consultant to NeilMed Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of SINUS RINSE ™ Nasal Rinse Kit."

personally, I love the NeilMed product and have been using it regularly this year and have not suffered a cold yet! Usually I am loaded up on cold remedies and allergy meds during the winter with its wild changes in temps.

The choice of specific product doesn't matter so much. Netipots are good, the NeilMed products are good. They are just plastic bottles/pots which are shaped in a way to make it easy to get a saline solution into your sinuses. You could probably rig one up yourself. I use the NeilMed Bottle in one house and a Netipot in the other and no I have no connection to this company.

You can certainly make your own solution too, the important thing to remember is that it must be isotonic or it will really irritate the sinuses. But in the absence of a way to measure ph, follow a specific formula and your sinuses will probably tell you if the solution is too hypertonic. I have done both the pre made packets and made my own.

I do think this is a terrific tool for people, and also divers. Keeping the sinuses clear when well, when sick, when diving, can avoid a LOT of unnecessary medications, some of which could have adverse effects on a diver.

I guess you could also take the lazy man's way too and just inhale a snoot full when you are diving in the ocean. But the ocean is definitely hypertonic!

 

[merxlin]

I have very severe seasonal allergies that hit me in late Jan and early Feb. Since using a nasal rinse (both neti pot and the NeilMed squeeze bottle) for the 3rd year in a row, I have avoided any antibiotics for sinus infections. I still get congested, stuffy, and some headaches, but nothing like the infections I used to get.

 

[Web Monkey]

Full disclosure please: Are you being paid by NeilMed or is this an unbiased opinion? Just curious.

Do you mean like this:

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/3238044-post87.html

Terry

 

[carriemak]

Love the Neil Med products, but am really suffering right now. Even using double the dosage isn't doing the trick but I am not giving up as I still don't want to go the antibiotic route.

What is NeilMed SinusRinse postive pressure bottle? The same bottle in the kit with a different name?

 

[Web Monkey]

Love the Neil Med products, but am really suffering right now. Even using double the dosage isn't doing the trick but I am not giving up as I still don't want to go the antibiotic route.

What is NeilMed SinusRinse postive pressure bottle? The same bottle in the kit with a different name?

You might want to check with an ENT. Mine rarely prescribes antibiotics for a sinus infection unless it's just not going away, but does have an array of other treatments including Neilmed, Mucinex, and various decongestants and steroids.

He said that once you get everything opened up and draining, it usually takes care of itself, which has proven to be correct so far.

Terry

 

[tridacna]

You might want to check with an ENT. Mine rarely prescribes antibiotics for a sinus infection unless it's just not going away, but does have an array of other treatments including Neilmed, Mucinex, and various decongestants and steroids.

He said that once you get everything opened up and draining, it usually takes care of itself, which has proven to be correct so far.

Terry

Thanks Terry. I'm still not sure why a psychiatrist is issuing sinus rinses to their patients. I just think that someone is doing too much promotion on the boards. I understand that he has a financial motive - but it seems strange for a psych to be blowing this trumpet so much. If I were hearing it from an ENT or even a Pulmonary doc, it would be a little more legit. And BTW, I am a (very regular) user of NeilMed. Yes, it makes me feel better and I like the feeling of seeing all that snot running out of my nose. And I know that Psychdoc is a scuba diver. Just a little too much promo.