It's actually very very pleasant and warm and DOES NOT burn like swimming pool water (no chlorine after all).
The warm salt water goes up into your head, grabs anything nasty up there and washes it right out the other side! Dry goobers, slimey snotty junk, and everything in between. AND it moisturizes the inside of your nose. I use it to prevent nosebleeds in really dry weather.
We clean our mouths, our ears, we sometimes use eye drops. It only make sense that we'd clean our noses once in a while. I can't stand not to now! Do you have a dirty nose? Ewwwwwwwww... Get a neti pot!
BY THE WAY. My name stepsata is based on the Latin words for noisy + daughter. Strep throat (streptococcus) is NOT. It is from Greek streptos "twisted" + Greek kokkos "berry." So called because the bacteria usually form chains.
So it looks like twisted berries!
Streptococcus is a bacterium of a genus that includes the agents of souring of milk and dental decay, and hemolytic pathogens causing various infections such as scarlet fever and pneumonia .
So strep throat is a cousin of sour milk and rotten teeth.
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