YUCK

Stuffy nose and dry itchy eyes. It's either allergy season, or the back-to-school cold that everyone else seems to have. Either way, blech.

However, I have found something that helps remarkably, but is a smidge gross. I had heard for awhile about "nasal irrigation", and finally tried it myself. This is some yoga/wholistic/new age sort of thing that basically holds with the idea that one's nose and sinuses would benefit by regular cleansing with a saline solution. People have even made little pots to aid in the cleansing of ones sinuses! I don't have a pot, so I just use the old bulb nasal aspirator I had when the kids were little. Seems to work just fine.

I must say, as silly and oogy as this practice sounds, after a few days of this I'm a bit of a convert. Without going into too much detail, the water REALLY helps to get all the gunk out of my nose and sinuses!