Tea Party for Your Nose

What will they come up with next?

How many of you fine folk have heard of a ‘Neti Pot’? It is hands down, the strangest thing to ever grace the shelves of pharmacies throughout the nation. It is designed to clear out your nasal passage to make your allergies and sinus problems better.



September is my least favorite month of all the months. It is the month that I sneeze, cough, hack and sneeze some more. I am deathly allergic to ragweed and September is the worst time of year for it. Most times, I feel like hibernating until the first official freeze.

Until I discovered the Neti Pot.

I was completely freaked out by it when my friend told me to use it. She told me to get the squirt bottle version, because it’s easier. I thought to myself, “oh, I can handle that – I use nasal spray sometimes…”, and then I opened the box.

The thing was the size of a can of diet coke. There was a line in the middle of the bottle marking how much to squirt in each nostril. Half of the bottle up each nostril. I thought I was going to die. There was NO way I was squirting that much water up my nose. No way. No how.



Until I sneezed 392 times in a row and decided it was time to give it a whirl.

You fill it with warm water, and pour a packet of solution stuff they give you inside to let it dissolve. It is a salt water type solution. Then you lean over the sink, open your mouth, BREATHE in and out, and commence to squirting.

As you squirt up one nostril, water and snot will drain out of your other nostril. It is completely un-lady like and disgusting, so I refuse to let Husby watch me. Plus, he makes me more nervous.

He ended up watching from the other room. Sneaky.



I love how this Reese-Witherspoon-lookalike is smiling and having the time of her life while doing the neti pot. Trust me, you will not look like this. If you're anything like me, your eyes will be the size of silver dollars, with tears streaming down them. It makes my eyes water every time. And you will NOT smile. You will have a major look of panic and hysteria plastered to your face.

Do NOT hold your breath (which is easy to do without realizing it), because all the solution will build up, not drain out the other nostril and will go in your mouth. You will then proceed to gag and come very close to throwing up because the taste is so horrible. Not that I know from experience or anything. So remember to breathe (if you are brave enough to try this in the first place).

The pressure is a little intense at first, but once it starts draining out, you feel instant relief.

Oh, neti pot - you have saved my life.

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