A while back I wrote about this odd thing my mom got me, called the Neti Pot. It’s for your nose and sinuses and is supposed to be a great thing. It did indeed work, but it also felt like inhaling pool water, so I didn’t use it a lot.

In fact, I sort of forgot I had it.

Until I got a sinus infection a week or so ago. First I called my doctor relatives to see if I should bother seeing my GP here seeing as 1) I didn’t really want to pay to go to a doc if the thinking these days was that antibiotics didn’t do anything, and 2) I didn’t want antibiotics anyway unless it sounded really bad. They thought I should give it a few days to see if it went away on its own.

Then I called my mom, and she reminded me that the Neti Pot was intended to treat and prevent sinus infections. Oh yeah! I forgot.

It totally worked. Within two days I was back to runny nose, and your bog standard cold (which keeps coming back — yet another story).  I still can’t stand to do it every day, but every few days seems to be a good idea. Hurrah for holistic solutions!

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