Can neti pot cause a cold?!


Question: My mother and I started using the neti pot this past weekend. We have both developed colds. My dad and sister do not have colds. Is it possible we used the neti pot incorrectly?


Answers: My mother and I started using the neti pot this past weekend. We have both developed colds. My dad and sister do not have colds. Is it possible we used the neti pot incorrectly?

I never heard of anybody getting a cold from them.
Probably were getting the cold for other reasons.
You can try taking vitamin C, echineachea, and zinc
and drink lots of orange juice and eat chicken soup.

Not sure what neti pot is?

the pot was not cleaned properly between uses, most likely. use vinegar to clean after each use so there is no cross contamination

It needs to be cleaned thoroughly between uses (most are dishwasher safe) and if you have never used it before and started when you had colored mucus or a stuffy nose, you very well could have pushed it further into your sinus canals. Another problem can be not draining completely or properly. You need to make sure the saline flows freeley and you bend over at the waist to get any leftover out of the sinus canal.

Are you sharing the same neti pot and not disinfecting it...then perhaps if one of you had a cold but not the symptoms yet, you would have passed it to the other.





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