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SINUS HYGIENE SINUSITIS
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Ryan W shares her 2 month history of signs and symptoms, seeing multiple doctors, getting several diagnoses, and being prescribed many medications that included an antidepressant that was not needed. Sinusitis is sometimes a missed diagnosis. It causes debilitating symptoms that can often be mistaken for flu-like, psychiatric, shortness of breath, vertigo, gastrointestinal, and other symptoms.
HOW TO REDUCE YOUR RISK OF CONTRACTING THE FLU AND MAINTAIN SINUS HYGIENE? Local governments should implement this FIVE STEP PLAN (several steps excerpted with permission)
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ENHANCE YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM to Decrease Your Risk of Infection
Nutrition – Maintain an ideal weight. No four legged animals, shellfish, or dairy products unless they are skim or non-fat. Poultry cooked without the skin. Swimming fish. Fruits and vegetables. Supplement your diet with certain nutrients in the proper doses, chemical form, and correct ratio of one to another. Take high doses of antioxidants (the carotenes, vitamins C and E, selenium, cysteine, copper, zinc, bioflavonoids), the B vitamins, and calcium with its enhancers: magnesium, potassium bicarbonate, boron, L-lysine, silicon, threonine.
Simone Antioxidant – Nutrient Supplementation
Carotene 30 mg Selenium 200 mcg
Lutein 20 mcg Copper 3 mg
Lycopene 20 mcg Zinc 30 mg
Vitamin A 5500 IU Iodine 150 mcg
Vitamin D 400 IU Bioflavonoids 10 mg
Vitamin E 400 IU Chromium 125 mcg
Vitamin C 350 mg Manganese 2.5 mg
Folic Acid 400 mcg Molybdenum 50 mg
All B Vitamins L-Cysteine 20 mg
Tobacco – Do not smoke, chew, snuff, or inhale other people’s smoke
Alcohol – less than 2 drinks per week
Walking – briskly for 20 minutes four times a week.
Modify stress
WASH HANDS AND FACE often with soap. Droplets laden with viruses from people who speak to you travel at least three feet from their mouths. Keep your distance and don’t shake hands. Soap and water is the best. The next best recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol and not an alcohol-free hand sanitizer that contains benzalkonium chloride because it may merely reduce the growth of germs rather than kill them.
DROPLET OR AIRBORNE MICROORGANISMS RELEASED FROM VARIOUS ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITY APPROXIMATE PARTICLE COUNT
Sneezing 40,000 Per sneeze
Bowel evacuation 20,000 Per event
Vomiting 1,000 Per event
Coughing 710 Per cough
Talking 36 Per 100 words
Coughing is more common than Sneezing
DECREASE MUCUS PRODUCTION AND MEMBRANE SWELLING by avoiding: Dairy products, citrus, dust mites, air flight, low pressure barometric pressure (rain, snow, overcast weather). Pre-menses swell membranes.
Dust mites live in mattresses, pillows, sheets, blankets, rugs, window dressings, etc. They wait for warm moist bodies – you – and come out by the hundreds of thousands on you, defecate and this causes the allergic reaction that swells sinus exit ports. Use hot water to wash. Cover your mattress and pillows with dust mite covers.
BLEACH – Diluted bleach decontaminates skin and inanimate objects. Viruses generally die on inanimate objects after 12 hours.
Make diluted bleach solution (0.5%) to decontaminate skin from chemicals or biologicals. Even anthrax spores, the most stable of all biologicals, are killed by this solution. Leave this diluted bleach on the skin for about 10-15 minutes. Make this solution by mixing 1 part undiluted bleach from the bottle with 9 parts of water (bleach from the bottle is 5.25%). Make a new solution every day you need it. Avoid eye contact.
SINUS HYGIENE – Keep sinus exit ports open with:
Steam (10 min every 6 hours),
Oxymetazoline nasal spray that has antiviral effects (over-the-counter https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2500/ajra.2010.24.3491),
Salt water nasal flushes have antiviral effects (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37703-3),
Hydration.
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Flush your nose with a nasal saline spray to promote mucus flow so that viruses and bacteria can’t lodge. Insert the spray tip in the nostrils perpendicular to the face and direct it toward the ears to get the spray to the exit ports to open them.
Using a syringe bulb, flushes with specific concentrations of over-the-counter Iodine (two teaspoons in 6 ounces of water), or Hydrogen Peroxide, or even very dilute Bleach (several drops in 6 ounces of water) can be used in the same manner as nasal saline. All these flushes are particularly useful if you have been in a crowd or in a high traffic and poorly ventilated public restroom.
Povidone Iodine (PVP-I) Oro-Nasal Spray: An Effective Shield for COVID-19 Protection for Health Care Worker (HCW), for all https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8026810/
Effect of 1% Povidone Iodine Mouthwash/Gargle, Nasal
and Eye Drop in COVID-19 patient file:///C:/Users/mail/Downloads/176-Article%20Text-335-2-10-20210102.pdfThe American Dental Association Council on Dental Therapeutics has designated 0.1% sodium hypochlorite a ‘mild antiseptic mouth rinse’ and suggested its use for direct application to mucous membranes. Dilute sodium hypochlorite has no contraindications. Its high degree of safety permits frequent and broad usage by both dentists and patients.
Effects of 0.05% sodium hypochlorite oral rinse on supragingival biofilm and gingival inflammation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020653920332937Sodium hypochlorite (dilute chlorine bleach) oral rinse in patient self-care
Imagine yourself trying to swim up these or any other waterfalls. It is not possible. So promote mucus flow so that viruses and bacteria can’t swim up and lodge in your sinuses.
Use steam with Eucalyptus oil – boil about an inch of water in a quart size pot, take it away from the stove, add about 10 drops of Eucalyptus oil, and inhale over the pot with a towel over your head for about ten minutes four to five times a day. You may use an over-the-counter Oxymetazoline nasal spray (not a banned substance) as directed. You can add a prescription steroid nasal spray to keep inflammation down but this requires a Therapeutic Use Exemption approval during sports competitions. Insert the spray tip in the nostrils perpendicular to the face and direct it toward the ears to get the medicine to the exit ports to open them. Hydrate to keep the mucus thin and flowing.
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE changes the structure of viruses and generates oxygen that kills viruses. Gargle for several minutes with hydrogen peroxide (right from the bottle) twice a day.
ZINC – weekly dose of 70 mg for all ages reduces mortality/morbidity from viruses and bacteria*. Also, Zinc Lozenges.
*1) Brooks WA, et al. Lancet. 2005. 366:999-1004. 2) Bhatnagar S. Lancet. 2007. 369:885-886. 3) Sazawal S et al. Lancet. 2007. 369:927-34. 4) Barnett J, Nutr Rev 2010 Jan 68(1):30-37
N-ACETYL CYSTEINE 600 mg twice a day.
VITAMIN C 2 to 4 gm & VITAMIN D 5000 IU per day.
QUERCETIN 500 mg twice per day (nutrient over-the-counter) – interferes with the virus binding onto your cells.
Quercetin possesses anti-influenza activity by inhibiting viral entry, viral-cell fusion, viral replication, viral load, and lung inflammation and airways hyper-responsiveness in vivo. Quercetin has strong antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties.
Wenjiao W, et al. Viruses. 2016. Jan. 8(1):6; Kinker et al. J Infectious Diseases & Preventive Med 2014 2.2.
A reduction in total sick days and severity was noted in middle aged and older subjects ingesting 1000 mg quercetin per day for 12 weeks who rated themselves as physically fit (Heinz SA et al. Pharmacol Res. 2010 Sep;62(3):237-42).
Quercetin outperforms Tamiflu – A mouse study showed that quercetin reduced symptoms and gave higher survival rates. Also, animals treated with Quercetin had half of the virus load in their lungs compared to animals treated with Tamiflu. (Choi HJ, et al. Phytother Res. 2012 Mar;26(3):462-4).
Tamiflu’s chemical structure is similar to Quercetin but different enough to allow it to be patented. Despite all the media attention about Tamiflu, here is what the makers of Tamiflu say in their insert (Nov ’09):
Adults felt better 30 percent faster (1.3 days) than flu patients who did not take TAMIFLU
Children felt better up to 26 percent faster (1.5 days) than flu patients who did not take TAMIFLU
TAMIFLU
In July 2026—more than twenty years after Tamiflu hit the market—researchers finally finished the randomized trial that should have been required before its approval. The results were damning: the drug failed to show any benefit, and patients taking it were actually more likely to die.
In a study tracking 442 critically ill, laboratory-confirmed flu patients, roughly 20% of those treated with Tamiflu died within 90 days, compared to 14% of those who received no antiviral at all. The authors’ conclusion was unambiguous: Tamiflu is “ineffective and highly likely to increase 90-day mortality,” and its routine use in severe seasonal influenza should stop immediately.
How did a virtually untested drug command billions in global government stockpiles? For years, doctors believed so strongly in Tamiflu’s efficacy that conducting a rigorous trial on critically ill patients was dismissed as unethical. Meanwhile, its true clinical reality was buried. When researchers from the Cochrane Collaboration dug beneath the surface, they uncovered a staggering gap in transparency: beyond the 15 publicly known trials lay another 108 trials—123 in total—with 74 fully funded, controlled, and kept under lock and key by its manufacturer, Roche.
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It took over two decades, but the gold-standard study Tamiflu should have undergone before FDA approval has finally been conducted—and the findings are alarming.
A July 2026 trial monitoring 442 critically ill influenza patients revealed that Tamiflu provided no therapeutic benefit. Worse, it proved dangerous: approximately 20% of patients given Tamiflu died within 90 days, compared to 14% in the non-antiviral group. The researchers concluded the drug is “ineffective and highly likely to increase 90-day mortality,” urging an immediate end to its routine administration for severe cases.
The scandal isn’t just that Tamiflu failed; it’s how long it was protected from scrutiny. Global governments spent billions stockpiling a drug whose trial data remained largely concealed. Of 123 total clinical trials conducted on Tamiflu, Cochrane researchers revealed that 74 were funded and controlled entirely by Roche, keeping key data hidden while medical practice treated an unproven drug as an untouchable standard of care.
Hard-Hitting Exposé
After more than twenty years on the market, Tamiflu’s reckoning has arrived.
In July 2026, researchers finally published the definitive randomized trial that should have preceded the drug’s FDA approval. The findings turn two decades of medical practice on its head: Tamiflu offers no benefit and carries a deadly cost. Among 442 critically ill, lab-confirmed flu patients, 20% of those given Tamiflu died within 90 days, compared to just 14% of untreated patients. The authors called for an immediate halt to routine Tamiflu administration in severe cases, deeming it “ineffective and highly likely to increase 90-day mortality.”
The history behind this failure exposes a profound flaw in global public health governance. Governments worldwide poured billions into stockpiling Tamiflu, blinded by corporate secrecy and medical dogma. Medical consensus was so entrenched that running a proper control trial was once deemed unethical, even as manufacturer Roche controlled 74 of the 123 total trials behind closed doors. The data was shielded, the public was misled, and the true cost is only now coming to light.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7172531
JET PLANES should use only OUTSIDE AIR for cabin.
Ryan’s story is similar to the Elite runner, Mary Decker Slaney
