How About Those Antihistamines?

Hi everybody, this is Pete Piotrowski here, for another installment in the Sinus Pain Help blog and video series. Here to help you with your sinus infections, and remedies thereof. Today I’m going to give you some of my tips around antihistamines. Antihistamines are pharmaceutical products that you take to reduce reactions that your body has to things like pollen and other allergens. Now these can be your best friends, they can also be your worst enemies. In the last video, I talked about how it was June here in Colorado, but as the seasons change different things are blooming. I suffer a lot of hay fever, my eyes itch, my nose runs, et cetera, et cetera.

So what I’ll do is take an over-the-counter antihistamine. There’s lots of “flavors” of these that you can get over the counter. I’ve also taken prescription antihistamines over the years. Now here’s the tip, and it’s important, antihistamines will stop your nose from running, now is that a good thing or a bad thing?...well, you have to be real careful. If you have a sinus infection, you want your nose to run because you want your sinuses to clean themselves out naturally. If you take antihistamines when you have a sinus infection it’s only going to make the sinus infection worse because it’s going to dry up your sinuses, keep them from running, keep them from cleaning out naturally. The sinus tissue is excreting mucus to try and help heal itself and get rid of the infection, and now you’ve dried that up so that stuff is just excreting up there and building the pressure, building the pressure, building the pressure. That’s going to make you more miserable than you know.

So I recommend that you take antihistamines when you need them, for hay fever, but as soon as you feel a sinus infection coming on, stop taking them immediately. Don’t start them again until you know that the infection is gone. That’s the tip for today. I actually got it from a doctor as sort of an off-the-cuff comment, but I took it to the nth degree and it has worked wonderfully for me. See my website to read more about my search for an effective sinus infection remedy.

What if I’m Travelling and Feel Like I’m Getting a Sinus Infection?

Hi everybody। Today I’m going to talk about what you can do when you’re away from your kitchen or bathroom, away from home, and you know you’ve introduced foreign materials into your sinuses and you need to wash it out in a hurry, but you don’t have your nasal irrigator handy.

So today what I’m going to talk about is these little saline nasal spray bottles। I will typically keep one of these in my vehicles, or if I’m travelling I’ll keep it in a backpack. I know lots of times when I go south of the border, I’m riding round in one of these open-air vehicles, and they don’t have the pollution controls we have here in the States, sometimes I feel like if I don’t do something I’m going to have a sinus infection coming on in a big hurry. So what I do is use these spray bottles sort of like a nasal irrigator. The problem is they don’t really irrigate as well, they spray a very thin aerosol of saline into your sinuses, and you squirt a couple up there but it’s not as effective as actual nasal irrigation, which really washes it out. So I recommend that you use a lot of this and just wash your sinuses out as much as possible. Check out the video for more details.

The other tip I have on this, if you remember GSE from my previous post, is that I actually introduce one drop of GSE into this bottle of generic nasal moisturizing spray. You can make your own, it’s just warm filtered water with salt, they call it saline and it’s the same pH as your body. I label it “GSE” with a magic marker, to show that it has GSE in it. This is a savior for me when I’m way from my nasal irrigator, it’s a great tip, and I highly recommend you use it.

My main website has more tips. I also now have pages at Wetpaint, Weebly, and Squidoo that offer tips for preventing sinus infections.

Welcome to sinus infection remedy blog

Hi everyone, I hope that you find this site when you are in good health and not currently suffering a terrible sinus infection. However if you are I'd like to immediately have you view a couple of videos and also suggest a site that can quickly give you some relief and remedy your pain.
Please start with these videos: http://www.metacafe.com/channels/sinuspainpete/

You can also get the whole story here: http://www.sinuspainhelp.com/

I myself suffered terrible sinus infections for over 20 years and it was only after applying my engineering mind to follow the logic of it all, I was able to beat the infections and all through some very basic applications of common items, all of which are natural, easy to apply, and don't require a doctor or pharmecueticals.

Best of luck to you in your search for a sinus infection remedy.