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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Sinusitis / October 2006so called sinus irrigation
i seriously doubt that any so called sinus irrigation technique actually enters the sinus and wasdhes it out--probable more sense would be to call sinus irrigation nasal irrigation irrigating the nasal passages would in essence wash out sinus discharge material and other material formed in the nasal nucosa You may be both right and wrong. I use a large rubber bulb often to rinse out my nose, especially after being exposed to dust. I don't think any of the saline solution gets into the sinus. Several times a year I use a Grossan irrigator (like a water pick) and I think it this case some solution does get into the sinus. About 20 or 30 minutes after using it my left side suddenly drips quite a bit of fluid. I understand this is normal when using this method and is supposed to be the saline solution running out of the sinus cavity. I just wish both sides would drain but at least one side does. >i seriously doubt that any so called sinus irrigation technique actually >enters the sinus and wasdhes it out--probable more sense would be to call >sinus irrigation nasal irrigation >irrigating the nasal passages would in essence wash out sinus discharge >material and other material formed in the nasal nucosa probably what is happening is the solutionis decreasing the swelling around the sinus drainage site theby alowing the sinus to drain i think a detailed search of the literature re sinus irrigation is in order here and will start today there must have been some research done on this topic hth peter > You may be both right and wrong. I use a large rubber bulb often to > rinse out my nose, especially after being exposed to dust. I don't [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >>irrigating the nasal passages would in essence wash out sinus discharge >>material and other material formed in the nasal nucosa On 10/26/06 2:04 PM, in article tp90h.5762$Wz2.1674@trndny09, "ilaboo" <rlener@verizon.net> wrote: > i seriously doubt that any so called sinus irrigation technique actually > enters the sinus and wasdhes it out--probable more sense would be to call > sinus irrigation nasal irrigation > irrigating the nasal passages would in essence wash out sinus discharge > material and other material formed in the nasal nucosa When a patient has done pulsatile irrigation, we wait a day before an X ray because the liquid will show up in the sinus cavities. confused--if you can actually irrigate the interior of a sinus then adequate drainage should be taking place and not lead to sinus infectio--sounds like a real nice cadaver or animal study to see if actual irrigation fluid enters sinus--find this rather interesting take care peter n > On 10/26/06 2:04 PM, in article tp90h.5762$Wz2.1674@trndny09, "ilaboo" > <rlener@verizon.net> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > ray > because the liquid will show up in the sinus cavities. > confused--if you can actually irrigate the interior of a sinus then adequate > drainage should be taking place and not lead to sinus infectio--sounds like > a real nice cadaver or animal study to see if actual irrigation fluid enters > sinus--find this rather interesting We don't need cadaver studies when so many folks here have reported irrigation fluid showing up during imaging studies. Susan |
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