Table of contents:
- Wash your nose with water, okay?
- How to wash the nose properly?
- Make your own nasal spray
- Then, how many times do you have to wash your nose?
Nose is not the right way to clean the nose. To keep your nose clean, you can clean your nose by washing it. However, how many times do you have to wash your nose? How to?
Wash your nose with water, okay?
Cleaning the nose is not recommended using running tap water. Tap water is not necessarily sterile and free of bacteria, so it remains a risk to your nose.
Wash the nose preferably using a saline spray that is sold at drugstores or pharmacies. This nasal spray is a sterile isotonic saline solution. Why do you have to use this? The pH level of saline is similar to the pH of body fluids, so it will not disrupt the ecosystem in the nose.
Saline sprays also help keep nasal cilia healthy. Cilia are tiny hairs in the nose that function to help humidify the air that enters the lungs, trap bacteria from entering the body, and help improve your sense of smell.
In addition, saline sprays can also thin the mucus that is causing congestion. That's why this spray can also help treat symptoms of allergic rhinitis and sinusitis.
How to wash the nose properly?
- First, prepare a saline nasal spray. Then, position your head slightly forward and tilt it slightly. Can tilt right or left according to your convenience.
- When entering saline water, insert it into the nostril in the upper position with the head tilted. For example, if it is tilted to the left, insert it into the right nostril, and vice versa.
- Gently spray the water into the nostrils. Don't inhale, but let the water come out of the other nostril.
- After that, swap positions to drain the water into the nostrils that have not been sprayed.
- Get the water out of your nose like blowing your nose, but gently, not too tightly.
Make your own nasal spray
In fact, you can easily make your own nasal spray at home. The tools you will need are, non-iodine salt, baking soda, a syringe, a neti pot, and a plastic bottle or container.
To make a saline solution, mix 3 teaspoons of non-iodine salt and one teaspoon of baking soda. Store this saline mixture in a small clean container or jar.
If you want to wash your nose, mix a teaspoon of saline in a cup of clean water that has been boiled and cooled to normal temperature.
Afterwards, put them in the neti pot and wash your nose.
Then, how many times do you have to wash your nose?
Washing the nose should be done only once a day, especially at night. Why are you so late?
Washing the nose at night will also clean all the dirt that enters and accumulates in the nose after you use it to breathe outside air.
In addition to being dirty, dirt that is allowed to continue to stay in the nose can have the potential to cause infection in the nose.
