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Any good old home remedies?

Question:

Does anybody know of any home remedies?  I don’t want surgery, medication, or doctors.  I have really sensitive sinuses that get infected easily.  I hate it!  It’s gotten worse in the last year.  The last week of May, I got a bad infection that led to a "wierd eye disease."  It was so painful that I had to go to the emergency room!  They said the infection somehow got into my eyes or tear duct or something… but it had never happened before!  My eyes were stingy, dry feeling, and a bunch of yellow-gold slime was coming out and coating my eyelids and eyelashes.  My vision was blurry, with fuzzy halos around lights.  I used to just get infections after having a cold, but now it seems like I get them just from being outside when it’s dusty…  Can anyone help?  Hot/warm showers work very well at breaking it up, relaxing your muscles, and helping get over that generally "chilled" feeling.  The only problem is, once you’re out of the shower, it all comes back.  I don’t know if I have a fever, but my calves feel weak when I walk and my fingers feel weak typing this…  I’m uncoordinated, my head hurts, and I’m exhausted.  Can anyone help me?  I don’t think it’s chronic because it usually goes away within a few days…  I’m just worried because they’re more frequent.  Is something wrong with me that’s decreasing my ability to fight infection?

Response:

Surgery would probably help you tremendously and might also prevent further damage and even worse problems. People can die if these sinus problems get into the brain. I’ve had this surgery twice and it isn’t all that bad. At least my sinuses are now open and draining. I no longer have the dry eyes, plugged up Eustachian tubes that affect hearing, the tight feeling in my head.     I do feel that the skills of ENT doctors vary all over the place, so you need to search for a good one. The guy that really straightened me out with a second surgery was the guy trained at Mayo. Even the literature he gave me was from Mayo. So, if I were in doubt about who to let do it, I would probably go to the Mayo clinic.     You didn’t really say if they’ve done cultures or CT scans to determine what’s wrong. Good luck,    Wayne Dnonychus <dnonyc…@aol.com> wrote in message

news:19991030192203.01254.00000392@ng-xb1.aol.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Does anybody know of any home remedies?  I don’t want surgery, medication, or > doctors.  I have really sensitive sinuses that get infected easily.  I hate it! >  It’s gotten worse in the last year.  The last week of May, I got a bad > infection that led to a "wierd eye disease."  It was so painful that I had to > go to the emergency room!  They said the infection somehow got into my eyes or > tear duct or something… but it had never happened before!  My eyes were > stingy, dry feeling, and a bunch of yellow-gold slime was coming out and > coating my eyelids and eyelashes.  My vision was blurry, with fuzzy halos > around lights.  I used to just get infections after having a cold, but now it > seems like I get them just from being outside when it’s dusty…  Can anyone > help?  Hot/warm showers work very well at breaking it up, relaxing your > muscles, and helping get over that generally "chilled" feeling.  The only > problem is, once you’re out of the shower, it all comes back.  I don’t know if > I have a fever, but my calves feel weak when I walk and my fingers feel weak > typing this…  I’m uncoordinated, my head hurts, and I’m exhausted.  Can > anyone help me?  I don’t think it’s chronic because it usually goes away within > a few days…  I’m just worried because they’re more frequent.  Is something > wrong with me that’s decreasing my ability to fight infection?

Response:

Copenhagen d. 2/11-99 I’m a guy from scandinavia (Denmark) who have cronic sinusitis and are looking forward to a surgery like many others in Denmark. Our climate is cold and many people are due to sinus infections, allergies. A lot of people are using over the counter remedies, but offen with some side effecs. This year i heard about great house tip to prevent colds,sinus infection and indeed those who have cronic sinus or dry nose!!! It’s trick that has been done for many hundred years among the local fishers and it’s simple and it works!!!!!!! They using the saltwater to clean there nose (nose washing), because saltwater kills the bacterias in the nose and the small drains. It then prevent your nose to build up green/yellow mucous that causes the infections and kills the cilies. It’s a great ting to do after a sinus surgery to prevent a second surgery, because when your drains are clear the mild saltwater stimulates the cilies to move away the dust, pollen ….. It also creates a good PH climate in airways so the bacterias can’t survive. People who suffer from broncitis have told they can breath better when they do this trick, because dryness is some of the problem thats due to them.   There are a lot of people who suffer from allergies, like dust and hayfewer. If they do this trick (nose washing) they allmost havn’t any problems even in the high pollen season ( And sometimes not using any kind of antihistamins). They do this in the morning, at lunch and at night. It takes about 3 min. to do. All you need is some body warm water from the tab, householding salt, A neti/nose can. You then mix about one teaspoon of salt to 0.5 L of water (0.9 % saltwater). You fill the can, and then let the water flush from one nose opening and to second one. You do this on both sides. After this you bend over and close one of the openings on your nose with a finger. Then "very carefully" blow out through your nose. Do this on both sides. The last thing is to turn your head from side to side to get all the water away (when your’e bending). That’s it… Now you been flushing away pollen, dust, air polution and any kind that causes infection or allergies. Good luck to all of you!!!!! If you don’t know what a neti / nose can is, you will  find it on yahoo.com. Just search for " neti " There would be some online sales and illustrations how to perform this trick. Morten Villadsen If you have some questions mail me at    morten.villad…@dk2net.dk

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