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Instructions: How to rinse the nose with a salt solution



  • Dissolve one teaspoon of salt in 500 ml lukewarm water.
  • Fill the plastic syringe with 10 ml of salted water.
  • Rinse the nose 3 or 4 times a day.
  • How to rinse the nose: rinse both nostrils, each with 10 ml of salted water. Repeat this three times.
  • Place the tip of the plastic syringe in the nostril and in the direction of your ear.
  • While you are rinsing your nose, you should sniff (inhale through nose).
  • You may get salted water in your throat. Don’t swallow the water, spit it out.
  • Make a new salt water solution every day.

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