Doctors used to prescribe "sea air" for patients with respiratory infections. Science has proven that sea salt does indeed benefit respiration:
(URI = Upper Respiratory Infection.)
The sea salt-derived physiological saline nasal spray device satisfactorily improved nasal congestion, runny nose, sleep quality, and appetite in adults with URI, with no adverse effects.
The most impressive part of that is the last bit: "no adverse effects". Salt is a preservative, which explains the anti-microbial action.
I had lifelong problems with rhinitis and sinusitis, and couldn't tolerate the side effects of other treatments. Using a water nasal spray helped some, but adding sea salt made a dramatic difference. I can't actually tell whether a spray is salty without tasting it. However, with sea salt, symptoms simply never progressed to the usual infections. Over time the difference in comfort became obvious. Salt has been used as a preservative for millennia; freshwater germs don't like it.
Using generic ingredients encourages liberal use at the first sign of discomfort. There's no reason to let irritants linger on your mucosa, so don't. Sea salt has healthy trace nutrients for humans anyway, so there's probably a benefit to getting a dose throughout the day.
Your eyes and sinuses are right next to your brain, so it's prudent to be extra careful. Buy a small bottle of distilled water, so it's easy to pour into the tiny spray bottle. The bottle will last months. This avoids tapwater contaminants such as chlorine.
72,344 Americans died of respiratory disease in 2019, before the pandemic. Lower respiratory infections are the 4th leading cause of death globally, and they obviously are often caused by upper respiratory infections. If we can institute a hygiene practice similar to washing hands but for the upper respiratory tract, it would save many lives.
Too bad it's not patentable, or Big Pharma would advertise it. I believe the medical cartel's efforts to deprecate generic competitors are the reason why subreddits such as Sinusitis, Allergies, Lifehacks and Lifeprotips downvote and remove this saline spray idea.
Salt is the traditional defense against evil. Perhaps demons are a metaphor for airborne plague.
- Salt Circle ★ A Supernatural / MBMBAM Animatic | YouTube
- Salt | Horror Short Film about a Mother and Daughter Fighting a Demon | YouTube
Further discussion here.
I suffered from terrible allergies all my life. I had Benadryl, nasal spray and Kleenex on me at all times, year-round.
Because I heard it alleviated gout, I started taking baking soda. Just a tiny amount, half a teaspoon dissolved in water once a day. After a month or so I noticed my allergies had all but disappeared. Completely unexpected.
It was an effect I'd never looked for or even heard existed, but it changed my life.
Studies?
It's been a number of years, and I've never even seen anyone else mention it.I can almost guarantee no scientist concerned about his future career would ever study it.
I've concluded that it must work by altering blood pH, and that's probably why I saw it originally recommended for gout. The method of action is very, very quick.
My habit is that if my allergies are really bothering me, I'll take another dose telling myself I'll give it a few minutes to see if I need more. (I said half a teaspoon but I don't really know since I never measure.) Almost always, I've forgotten about the issue by the time a few minutes passes.
They say gout is a form of inflammation, and inflammation is caused by acidic blood. In the eight or so years I've been doing this, I can tell I avoided a number of gout attacks. That is, it felt like I stubbed my toe or rolled my ankle a little, rather than pain that you would not wish on your worst enemy. In fact, that's what I thought I must have doe before I figured out what was really going on. And I've never noticed a single negative side effect.
So given today's "modern medial system" and that a box of baking soda lasts me six months and costs 80 cents., no one in hell is going to study this, right?
Maybe at the beginning stages your right. If you ever get to the point I did, please, please take medication.
The main drug is a relatively safe one, been used since the 70's, back when testing and standards were much higher. Plenty of generics I believe.
From what I understand, if you let it go out of control, it becomes a feedback type deal. If you take the medication like your supposed to, and work on reducing the foods that cause it, (for me one of them is tomatoes, which funny enough is acidic....) and I did notice on my last urine test, that it was a 5. A year ago (i still had gout then but it wasnt bad yet) it was 8. You can eventually get off the medication, its not like the anti depressants they want you to take for the rest of your life to "fix" your brain chemistry, or opiate painkillers designed to make you addicted.
My solution has been eating naturally alkaline things. Ive ate more cucumbers in the last 6 months then I have in 20 years prolly :/.
Im still taking the medication for gout of course, it does work. But weirdly enough if I fast for an extended period, it makes it the chance of having a small gout attack the next morning very high.
I cant wrap my head around that one.