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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Sinusitis / August 2006Sea Salt in irrigation - seen this??
I've asked *a few* ENTs about sea salt and they always strongly caution against it. Hmmmmmm. I'm switching ... uh ... in five minutes ;-) ==== http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra ct&list_uids=16735920&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum OR: http://tinyurl.com/omkno A randomized, prospective, double-blind study on the efficacy of dead sea salt nasal irrigations. Friedman M, Vidyasagar R, Joseph N. Department of Otolaryngology and Bronchoesophagology, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60602, USA. hednnek@aol.com OBJECTIVE: The objective of this randomized, prospective, double-blind study was to compare nasal irrigation using hypertonic Dead Sea salt (DSS) solution with hypertonic saline in the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis and improvement of quality of life (QOL). METHODS: With Institutional Review Board approval, 42 adults seeking treatment for chronic rhinosinusitis in a tertiary university-affiliated medical center were studied. After history and endonasal examination, computed tomography imaging, and QOL survey (Standardized Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire [RQLQ(S)]), patients were randomized to self-administered hypertonic saline spray and irrigation twice daily or hypertonic DSS spray and irrigation. Patients were reassessed weekly and at 1 month. RESULTS: Both groups had similar symptoms and RQLQ(S) scores before treatment and had significant improvement after treatment. However, the DSS patients had significantly better symptom relief and only the DSS group showed improved RQLQ(S) scores. CONCLUSIONS: We present a short-term study providing level I evidence on the superiority of DSS over saline nasal irrigation for treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis. My sister swears by sea salt. I use kosher salt. I've swum in the Dead Sea, and I think there's other minerals in it despite such hypertonic saline that you're super-bouyant. Judy > I've asked *a few* ENTs about sea salt and they always strongly > caution against it. Hmmmmmm. [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > on the superiority of DSS over saline nasal irrigation for treatment > of chronic rhinosinusitis. I tried Mediterranean sea salt (Drogheria &Alimentari Italian variety sea salt ) one teaspoon in two cups of distilled water with 1/4 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda bring to boil and let cool. It shrunk my polyps and I've been "cured" for over two months now. Just a spray or two every two or three days keeps stuff from getting too thick. Must be other forms of sodium or minerals because plain table salt or kosher salt didn't do the trick. My polyps are not an issue at all now and I can smell again. And best of all I don't need surgery and at this rate no more Flonaise. "Neil Brooks" <neil0502@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:7mpi92pso2r3qduocv6ptlia902bvrvri7@4ax.com... > I've asked *a few* ENTs about sea salt and they always strongly > caution against it. Hmmmmmm. > > I'm switching ... uh ... in five minutes ;-) > > ==== http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra ct&list_uids=16735920&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum > OR: http://tinyurl.com/omkno > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > on the superiority of DSS over saline nasal irrigation for treatment > of chronic rhinosinusitis. In the study didn't they analyze the dead sea salt to see what's in it, to see what could be causing the difference? Surprising study. I tend to think salt is salt-- wherever it comes from, it is refined to pure sodium chloride. Surprising that they found different results with one type of salt over another. > I've asked *a few* ENTs about sea salt and they always strongly > caution against it. Hmmmmmm. [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > on the superiority of DSS over saline nasal irrigation for treatment > of chronic rhinosinusitis. Salt is not salt. Just read the box. Some salt has iodine. Some does not. Most reading I have done says that Kosher is the best for irrigation. Morton makes Kosher. It does not have iodine. I have used Morton Kosher for irrigation for several months now and it works fine for me. >In the study didn't they analyze the dead sea salt to see what's in it, to >see what could be causing the difference? [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >> on the superiority of DSS over saline nasal irrigation for treatment >> of chronic rhinosinusitis. Billy Boy To reply correct [at] and [dot] > Salt is not salt. Just read the box. Some salt has iodine. Some does not. Yes, Billy Boy, I read labels on boxes carefully. Not only iodine, but much table salt has some kind of anticaking agent in it. When I wrote that I thought "salt is salt", I wasn't referring to the additives, or lack of them. I was referring to the salt itself, sodium chloride, that I thought it was the same whether it came from the sea or the land. So I was surprised to read this article which reported better results with sea salt. Perhaps it's the "fish feces" which Dr. G asserts is present in sea salt. Perhaps that has some curative effect on sinuses! ;-) >> Salt is not salt. Just read the box. Some salt has iodine. Some does not. > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Perhaps it's the "fish feces" which Dr. G asserts is present in sea salt. > Perhaps that has some curative effect on sinuses! ;-) This is Dead Sea salt therefore no fish. If you allergic to iodine which I am, so I cannot use the sea salt nor the iodonized salt. Shell fish has a lot of iodine in it. shirleyann Most sea salt does not have added iodine. Actually, I think iodine is an anti-infective (betadine, for example), so it could even be good for irrigation, for those not allergic to it. I have no idea whether the iodine in salt would work that way, just speculation. > If you allergic to iodine which I am, so I cannot use the sea salt nor > the iodonized salt. > Shell fish has a lot of iodine in it. > > shirleyann |
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