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Do you flood your sinus cavities?
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I think that flooding sinuses is a misnomer. What most of us do is moisten the sinus entry passages and that makes clearing easier.
If you were to dive to 10 meters with a liquid in your nasal passages (water equalization), you could, in theory, fill the four major sinus cavities with about 50% liquid(30 meters would be 75%) however, if you return to the surface head up, the expanding air would push the liquid back out of at least two of those cavities.
Aloha
Bill
If you were to dive to 10 meters with a liquid in your nasal passages (water equalization), you could, in theory, fill the four major sinus cavities with about 50% liquid(30 meters would be 75%) however, if you return to the surface head up, the expanding air would push the liquid back out of at least two of those cavities.
Aloha
Bill
I rinse my sinuses almost daily, not while diving, just to clean out the tough phlegm that lodges in my sinuses and throat overnight.
I gargle with one teaspoon salt and 1 cup of warm tapwater. I take a sip, gargle as deep in my throat as I can before coughing, then tilt my head forwards, plug my nostrils and pump the water between my sinus and oral cavities by flexing the soft palate.
Last week I pumped a little harder into my sinuses and felt the salt water go into my Eustachian tubes and behind my eardrums. I thought "this could be a way to equalize!".
The next time I tried it, I lifted my head up and got really dizzy: It must have messed up my balance organs. Now I the gland that's underneath my jaw hinge is swollen, and pressure has given me headache and slight fever for the last two days.
Either the tapwater or glass I used wasn't clean enough, or my immune system wasn't up to scratch the day I tried it, or it just isn't a good way to equalize.
Any thoughts or similar experiences?
I gargle with one teaspoon salt and 1 cup of warm tapwater. I take a sip, gargle as deep in my throat as I can before coughing, then tilt my head forwards, plug my nostrils and pump the water between my sinus and oral cavities by flexing the soft palate.
Last week I pumped a little harder into my sinuses and felt the salt water go into my Eustachian tubes and behind my eardrums. I thought "this could be a way to equalize!".
The next time I tried it, I lifted my head up and got really dizzy: It must have messed up my balance organs. Now I the gland that's underneath my jaw hinge is swollen, and pressure has given me headache and slight fever for the last two days.
Either the tapwater or glass I used wasn't clean enough, or my immune system wasn't up to scratch the day I tried it, or it just isn't a good way to equalize.
Any thoughts or similar experiences?
If you dive with no nose clip and flood your sinuses and equalize, it works, but you can experience violent pain in your ears from the salt water. Here in Vancouver the water is the same salinity as tears, so you don't feel anything. If the water is more salty (or fresh) it HURTS LIKE HELL. And I mean it hurts so much that you start shaking.