On-line Resources

There are volumes of information on the web about the benefits of nasal washing. We have gathered a few here for your convenience.

• National Pollen & Allegy Levels
• Children's Cold Symptoms Helped By Saline Nasal Wash
• Annals of Family Medicine Qualitative Aspects of Nasal Irrigation Use by Patients With Chronic Sinus Disease in a Multimethod Study
• Efficacy of daily hypertonic saline nasal irrigation among patients with sinusitis: a randomized controlled trial.
• The efficacy of hypertonic saline nasal irrigation for chronic sinonasal symptoms.
• NPR - Nasal Irrigation Makes Comeback as Cold Remedy
• Clinical study and literature review of nasal irrigation
• Archives of Otolaryngology
• Mayo Clinic  - Video of nasal washing
• Medical Articles
• Michigan Sinus Center
• UMHS press release about Pynnonen’s study on nasal irrigation
• UMHS Health Topics A-Z: What is sinusitis?
• UMHS Health Topics A-Z: Saline nasal sprays and irrigation
• Sinus infections, information from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• Boek (1999) -- Physiologic and hypertonic saline solutions impair ciliary activity in vitro
• Ünal et al. (2001) -- Ringer-Lactate solution versus isotonic saline solution on mucociliary function after nasal septal surgery
• Summary of Ünal et al. (2001) -- more details of the article linked just above.
• The Efficacy of Daily Hypertonic Saline Nasal Irrigation -- Research by David Rabago at the Univ. of Wisconsin.