Weirdest pot I ever tried. 

I do feel kind of light headed though. *breathes deeply through nostrils*

  Dude... I hope you are following the instructions to the letter. You MUST use distilled water or you can really REALLY screw up your sinuses. Google Neti Pot + Infection. Even when using distilled water any kind of contaminants can cause issues. Make sure you keep the pot sterile. The dangers and hassle seem to outweigh the benefits IMO but I don't live in NYC so I'm not getting clogged with as much toxic crud.  

Yea...even tho my grandmother used one all the time with no problems...it is strictly recommended to use distilled water only now.  And it's not just your sinuses that can be affected...it can also be your brain.  They are great little devices...but use with caution.

That is one weird thing..... I don't like the idea of putting water up my nose.... fingers are plenty good for me... 

Using non-sterile water is bad news. One lady used tap water thinking it was clean and ended up with a brain eating amoeba.... and died from it..... no cure. 

Nahhhhh I'll pass..... my wife got one, and I don't think she used it more than one time.... it was almost comedic.....

I boil the water first so I'm hoping that will put paid to any brain munching amoebas. Maybe I will start using distilled as well though. I'm seriously considering switching to distilled for my humidifier too - even it has a filter in it, I still get white dust everywhere. 

I think you can be too paranoid though. Apparently you can lose your sight from getting shower water in your eyes. I read an article recently by a guy who ended up having to have injections in his eyeball from an amoeba he picked up from showering. Enough to make me want to stop showering. But alas, that isn't social acceptable *sigh*

Supposedly boiling isn't good enough but the reason for the concern with this type of thing is that the nasal cavities and the membranes therein are extremely sensitive and prone to infection and such infections have a direct route to the brain. Amoebas going loco in your noodle is highly unlikely but other contaminants can cause issues very counter productive to why one would use a neti pot in the first place... which is to clear the sinuses.

Also there are opinions that clearing all that goop out isn't that great to begin with. Boogers serve a purpose. Flushing things out every now and again is cool but doing it all the time might screw up a natural defense mechanism of the body.

Just gotta be careful with it. That's all. If shiz gets weird go see a doc.

It actually did wonders for my sinuses tonight. From what I've read it's something you should do no more than once a month or so because you don't want to scrape the beneficial mucus from your sinuses on a frequent basis. Like everything else, moderation.....I'm betting it's safer than drilling a hole in your head, as I've heard some New Age nuts are prone to do...

Exactly. A bunch of dummies took an ancient remedy and decided "Derp... if teh anzientss didz it i can do itz every DAY!!" then didn't bother to read up on it and gave themselves brain eating parasites.

What can ya do?

The latest one I've heard, which is making the rounds on Facebook, is that keeping a peeled onion in a bowl in a room will attract and absorb all the germs in the room and keep its occupants immune from the flu and other viruses. I've seen people post this and other people say "wow, that's amazing, I'm going to peel an onion right now." It's an old wive's tale that originates from the Great Plague. 

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The latest one I've heard, which is making the rounds on Facebook, is that keeping a peeled onion in a bowl in a room will attract and absorb all the germs in the room and keep its occupants immune from the flu and other viruses. I've seen people post this and other people say "wow, that's amazing, I'm going to peel an onion right now." It's an old wive's tale that originates from the Great Plague. 

More likely what that middle-age remedy did was keep all the diseased buffoons away....