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 sinusitis treatment.

What if I’m Travelling and Feel Like I Need a Sinusitis Treatment?

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.

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Using a Natural Antibacterial as a Sinusitis Treatment

Hi everybody, it’s another beautiful day in Colorado. It’s July, I was out with the dogs this morning, and I noticed that all the grasses were in bloom. I had sort of a rough week, you know, because let’s face it I have hay fever. I suffer from hay fever. But, as always, I use my trusty nasal irrigator, my neti pot.

If you are suffering a raging sinus infection, and I say raging because, well frankly, when I get a sinus infection they’re all raging…I’m sort of a wimp. I want to give you a couple tips of things you can do with a neti pot. Now last time I talked about using a little salt put a little salt in your water, use filtered water, before you actually irrigate your sinuses and wash out the pollen and things. More information can be found on my website.

I’m going to give you my #1 best tip today, and that is GSE. GSE stands for Grapefruit Seed Extract. This is a concentrated citrus extract that is very good in the homeopathic arena. It kills bacteria. Why is this of interest to us? Well, if you get a bacterial infection in your sinuses, you can irrigate your sinuses and you can wash things out of there, but you still have the bacteria in there. A little bit of GSE goes a long ways to killing the bacteria in your nose that you don’t want to have in there that’s causing the infection. Check out my NEW video on youTube!

So how does this work? I simply drop about 3 or 4 drops in my neti pot with my water. I like to fill it with filtered water, I have a filter on my water tap, and I use about as warm of water as I can stand…I don’t really want hot water, sort of luke warm. I’ll mix it up with my finger, and then wash my sinuses out. I tell you what, this works wonders, this is my #1 tip for sinus infections.

Use of a Neti Pot nasal irrigation as a infection remedy

Hi everybody, my name is Pete Piotrowski and I live in beautiful Colorado where it is spring and the flowers are blooming. Today I am going to give you some helpful tip for a natural sinus infection remedy.
There are lots of different tips and things that I have found over the years. For 20 years I have suffered horrible and terrible sinus infections, and over the last three years I have discovered Nasal Irrigation. Why does Nasal Irrigation work? Well, there are lots of things brought upon the sinus cavities from organic matter. For example, working in the garden, there are all kinds of bacteria associated with that. The infection would take hold and go. Also there are always viruses in air, some ways of picking those up are: working in wood shop, sweeping out the garage. There are always things in environment that can trigger a sinus infection.
An important way in beating these things is nasal irrigation. I have discovered the Neti Pot. There are a few different ones but they all get the same job done and I highly recommend them.
In order to do this correctly, first you need to fill it up with water, treat the water, stick it up one side of nostril, and tilt your head and washes through sinus cavities and out the other side. It is wonderful.
When getting the water, don't you straight tap water. Tap water has chlorine which will dry out your nasal cavities. Also tap water doesn't have the same pH as our bodies. So I would use filtered water or distilled water. So, this is what you do, it's very simple, one salt shake with filtered/distilled water so now the pH level is close to the salinity of body.
How often should you use the Neti Pot? I do this during the spring, when the pollen count is high, every night right before I go to bed. I also will use it after a bike ride, after being at a smoky night club, or being in a dusty environment. When you are having a sinus infection, the Neti Pot is wonderful for washing the buildup of mucus out of your sinuses and so that your sinuses can drain naturally.
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This is my tip for the day, I hope you use it and great success and keep watching for more videos on this topic of natural sinus infection remedies. Please visit my website at for other tips about sinusitis treatment.