Is baking soda needed if salt alone feels fine?

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dougreding@gmail.com - 18 Apr 2006 03:51 GMT

Just curious. I am using hypertonic saline WITHOUT baking soda and it
feels just fine to me. I am using high grade Kosher salt without
iodine. Honestly it may even feel better to irrigate without the
baking soda.

So far the most comfortable thing I have found for me personally is a
high grade pure Sea Salt, non-iodized of course, with no baking soda.
The only salt I find causes me any discomfort is iodized.

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loxaluck - 18 Apr 2006 14:21 GMT

I dont use baking soda.

from:
http://www-surgery.ucsd.edu/ent/DAVIDSON/NASHAND/nasal.htm

"Ten percent of patients say the standard salt solution causes burning.
For these individuals, one quarter to one half teaspoon of baking soda
changes the acidity (pH) and will ameliorate the burning problems. A
slightly acidic solution is preferred so baking soda should only be used
if necessary for comfort."

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travmmann - 19 Apr 2006 06:15 GMT

I don't use baking soada either....I guess I have been using straight salt
so long I have become hardened to it!

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> I dont use baking soda.
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> slightly acidic solution is preferred so baking soda should only be used
> if necessary for comfort."

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Steven L. - 19 Apr 2006 20:17 GMT

> I don't use baking soada either....I guess I have been using straight salt
> so long I have become hardened to it!

When I was irrigating with Amphotericin, I was told that this medication
can't be mixed with saline, so I didn't. If you want to know what that
felt like to me, try irrigating with plain water (no salt) next time!

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Murray Grossan - 23 Apr 2006 20:01 GMT

On 4/19/06 12:17 PM, in article
k1w1g.6095$Es3.2461@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net, "Steven L."
<sdlitvin@earthlinkNOSPAM.net> wrote:

>> I don't use baking soada either....I guess I have been using straight salt
>> so long I have become hardened to it!
>
> When I was irrigating with Amphotericin, I was told that this medication
> can't be mixed with saline, so I didn't. If you want to know what that
> felt like to me, try irrigating with plain water (no salt) next time!

This is correct. You can't mix Ampho with saline. But some doctors have you
prepare the saline, and add the ampho and use it immediately before it
precipitates out.

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MS - 28 Apr 2006 23:01 GMT

>A
> slightly acidic solution is preferred so baking soda should only be used
> if necessary for comfort."

I haven't heard that before, although I once saw Dr. Davidson. I wonder why
a slightly acidic solution would be preferred over a ph-balanced one?

And--is salt acidic? Isn't it alkaline-the opposite of acidic?

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