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Question: nasal irrigation with a appropriately diluted betadine solution, very bad idea or shouldn't be harmful if done right ?
Background:
Have something I suspect is covid. Combination of very sore throat, coughing and low grade fever - same as the last time.
Not such a big deal, some fever but not very high.
Sore throat no longer that sore.
I was surprised at the bits of phlegm I kept coughing up yesterday. It was not a blob, almost a chunk.
It's getting tiresome so I'm considering stricter measures. Anyone has experience with anything related? Gargling, nasal irrigation as a way of getting rid of upper airways infections ?
Not sure about the betadine, but I've been doing saltwater whenever I have a cold for some time, and it seems to prevent them from lingering. I can't remember if I bothered when I had covid, because it was pretty mild and didn't seem inclined to linger, but probably -- because it seems beneficial with the colds to get on it at the first sign of feeling crummy.
There was a study on this for covid, which has some issues but seemed promising; didn't seem to show an additional benefit to adding iodine to the salt rinse tho:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.16.21262044v1.full
Small study for colds, there are others out there I'm sure:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37703-3
I usually do something like this: (but without the fancy pot, I just put the rinse in a shallow dish and snort it, holding it in my sinus as long as possible)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2778074/
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I am not a doctor, but this is part of the treat protocol crafted by my doctor: I've gargled with cetylpyridinium chloride mouthwash and used a 1% providone-iodine solution nasal spray multiple times a day for a viral respiratory infection and I've had good results. At the very least, I've never been harmed by it.
I also eat spoonfulls of honey multiple times a day to sooth my throat (and has other benefits).
Fortunately, I've never gotten covid that I'm aware of so I cannot comment on the results with covid specifically. As always though, starting treatments earlier is generally better. Waiting until you're tired of it is generally a bad approach.
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