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nasal irrigation Tue Dec 1st @ 10:30am by Paul Ingraham RMT

Critical mucus bulletin! Science declares that nasal irrigation is good medicine

As regular readers know, it amuses me to veer away from my usual subject once in a while — roughly quarterly — for a critical mucus bulletin, because boogers make me snicker like a 6-year-old. Today’s bulletin comes to us via Science-Based Medicine: nasal irrigation works, and got a stamp of approval from a Cochrane review and Dr. Harriet Hall, the SkepDoc herself.

It’s a pleasure to talk about a treatment that works, for once. Almost every topic I research for SaveYourself.ca is a disappointment: the evidence for the vast majority of manual therapies is inadequate and discouraging, and sometimes I feel like a stuck record reporting on them, with one therapy after another failing the all-important “impress me” test.

Despite the good feeling I have after reading about the efficacy of sinus irrigation, I am never, ever doing that to myself again! Yuck! Water up my nose is worse than fingernails on a chalkboard!

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