How Do You Keep Nasal Passages Clean?
A clean nose and clean nasal passages can help prevent colds and other illnesses as well as improve your sense of smell. Keeping the cilia, the hairs in the nose, clean and free from mucus helps them do their job of snagging impurities that try to steal their way into your lungs. Here is how to keep nasal passages clean. Wash inside your nose while bathing and showering. The tiny hairs and mucus membranes inside the nose collect toxins from the air we breathe and these need to be washed away. The cilia do their work much more efficiently when they are kept clean. Use a thin washcloth to wash inside the nose. Roll the corner of the washcloth and insert it into one nostril. Twist the washcloth around in the nasal passage. Remove and rinse the washcloth and repeat several times on each side. Flush nasal passages using a saline solution and rubber nasal syringe to remove mucus. Boil 2 cups of water then let it cool. Dissolve 1 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda in the water a
