A recent preprint study by researchers at Augusta University and Edinburgh Napier University demonstrates that people who used normal saline nasal irrigation were 19 times less likely to require hospitalization for treatment of COVID-19 than the national rate for hospitalizations. A preprint means that the study hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet. Nevertheless, the results are promising, especially since people can perform nasal irrigation safely in their homes. According to a 2009 article in the American Family Physician, nasal irrigation has been an adjunctive therapy for upper respiratory conditions and is currently prescribed after nasal and sinus surgeries. Nasal irrigation with a neti pot instills normal saline into your nasal passages with a small device that resembles a teapot. After inserting the end of the pot into one side of your nose, the solution moves around the sinuses and comes out through the other nostril. The treatment can be effective for different conditions. …