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4 reasons to rinse your nose
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Introduction
Brushing your teeth. Showering yourself. These are familiar hygiene practices. Cleaning your nose should also be a regular daily activity. But why on earth should you rinse your nose? We explain 4 reasons.
1. Preventing diseases and infections
The first reason to rinse your nose is hygiene and preventing disease. Your nose contains nose hairs that trap a lot of dirt. By rinsing your nose, you strengthen the function of your nose. You flush away all the junk with a nasal rinse, while the nasal salts you use to do this work on your nasal mucosa and help increase your resistance.
2. Fighting a stuffy nose
A second reason is that your nasal mucosa may become swollen. This is the case during a cold, for example. You may then have trouble breathing through your nose. Your nasal mucosa swells, making you feel stuffy. By rinsing your nose, you flush away the thickened mucus and the salt acts on your nasal mucosa so that it can recover.
3. Alleviation of complaints
Hay fever. To go crazy. Colds. You feel miserable and short of breath. Ablocked nose. You can hardly breathe through your nose, if at all. If you've ever had a sinus infection, you know how annoying and painful it is. A nose rinse is then a solution! By taking a nasal rinse with a large amount of water that sprays the salty water through your nose with light pressure, you flush away all the debris and dirt. The salt acts on your nasal mucosa, reducing the swelling. You will find that your symptoms decrease significantly!
4. ENT doctors recommend it even as daily hygiene
With almost every treatment for the sinuses and sinuses, ENT doctors recommend flushing your nose. Because you flush your nose, other medications such as fluticasone have a better effect. Simply because they don't encounter blockages and can attack the spots you've flushed clean with your nasal rinse. Dr. B. van den Borne, ENT physician at the CWZ, a Santeon hospital, says, "Rinsing the nose works very effectively. In people with chronic sinusitis and after nasal (sinus) surgery, nasal rinsing is included as standard treatment in ENT guidelines, but nasal rinsing also works very well for allergies and even a common cold."
With a nasal rinse, you flush all kinds of debris out of your nose, keeping your nasal mucosa healthy and your nose functioning as it should. That's why it's good for everyone to preventively rinse your nose once or twice a day. This prevents problems. "Make it a daily hygienic act, just like brushing your teeth," advises Prof. W.J. Fokkens, ENT physician at the Amsterdam UMC.
Also read this article on nose rinse.
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