Comments on: Neti Pot: The Nasal Exorcist

By: heather

heather — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:41:36 +0000

Dammit… I’ve resisted the occasional thought that this might be useful to me. Now I’m reconsidering…

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:58:51 +0000

I am equally unfond of that.

Though, I find that getting a little of the nasty neti sauce back there actually cleans that area out a little, too.

But it’s fucking disgusting.

– c.

By: Cam Banks

Cam Banks — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:57:24 +0000

I love the neti pot. As does my wife. However I do not love my occasional salinated gag reflex.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:36:08 +0000

I hate all of you, but I hate you most, Wendig.

Friends at work said these arcane devices worked, so Suz bought me one. I hid it high atop a junk pile in our hall closet.

Erm. I’m always plagued by sinus evil. But a NetiPot? I just don’t know if I’m that hard core.

You all may have swayed me.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:01:59 +0000

Heh, all of you. Heh.

By: Tome Wilson

Tome Wilson — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:04:11 +0000

After the first paragraph, I felt as if the blue-shirted spirit of Billy Mays was speaking from the screen.

“First you snort it, then you glort it. It’s that easy!”

By: Stoney

Stoney — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:49:43 +0000

I’m with Paul (not literally, but figuratively, my husband would like me to clarify) on the Sinus Rinse. WAY easier to use than a neti pot, which means it practically shoves itself up your nose.

Yeast-pus sinus dough chunks. It’s glorious when they slop out. Mmmm, that’s good slop!

I had sinus surgery and man, you wanna talk about some awesome clot puddles, that gelatinous, rosy, splooge blow is a thing of wonder. And deep breathing.

(And again, like Paul, a few minutes after finishing the exorcism, take a deep breath and bend at the waist. And throw a towel on the floor under your face. You’ll thank me later.)

By: Paul DeLaurentis

Paul DeLaurentis — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:29:01 +0000

I use a similar product “NeilMed Sinus Rinse”. It’s a tube that you squeeze instead of simply letting gravity control things. I like it better because it seems to clear more out.

I must warn you…

There will be a day when you are getting ready for someone’s wedding. You will use your NetiPot and believe that all is well. Sadly…10 minutes intothe reception, you will feel the eyes of a 100 people on you. Those people will be making faces that defy logic. That’s when you will realize that a good amount of saline was trapped in your sinus…and now it had suddenly escaped. All over your shirt and tie. In full view of everyone.

This didn’t happen to me. Seriously. Ever. Just be careful.

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:03:39 +0000

Ok, I used to be married to a paramedic. A long time ago. He sucked. Anyway, one thing that did not suck was that he would bring home bags of saline solution with drip lines attached to them when I was sick. I would place 2 kitchen chairs next to each other perpendicular to the bathtub, lie on my back with my head over the tub, he’d insert the drip line in my nose, and open it up. I’d hold it in my head as long as possible and then flip onto my belly and expel everything into the tub.

He was ahead of his time.

But it worked. Dammit.

By: Gloria Oliver

Gloria Oliver — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:41:20 +0000

ROFL!!!! There are ways to minimize exposure and uhm discomfort. They have saline solution cans you insert up your nostril, you push the plastic, and it does a gentle mist into the cavities. Then you gently blow into a towel to get it out.

The Neti Pot sounds like the “it’s too late we have to amputate!” model. lol.

You’ve grossed me out and made me laugh all within 60 seconds. Good job! Huzzah! ROFL