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How Not To Drown Using A Neti Pot
Breathing through your nose isn’t a right, it’s a privilege.
I have a deviated septum. That means I can only breathe through one nostril.
The other nostril is just for show. It’s like a toilet at Home Depot — it’s not connected to anything and you can’t use it.
I bless the day that some brilliant genius — I’m talking about truly Einstein-level smarts here — invented the Breathe Right© strip.
A Breathe Right is a little piece of sticky plastic that goes over the bridge of your nose, grips your nostril flaps, and pulls.
Breathe Rights are worn by highly-trained competitive athletes during play, and by people like me — overweight mouth breathers with a defective schnozz.
But when my allergies act up or I have a cold, Breathe Rights aren’t up to the job.
My nostril flaps can only extend so far. That’s when we need to get to the root of the problem and have a nice, self-inflicted waterboarding.
Sorry, didn’t mean to scare you. I mean a nice, soothing “sinus wash”.
