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[Anonymous No.12861272]

So /ck/ I'm fucking congested, and I'm about to lose my fucking mind. I've taken decongestants, I've taken a hot shower, I've been drinking hot fluids, yet my right nostrils is fucking clogged still.
I'm at my limit, what foods do I eat to make my nose run, or clear my sinuses in general? Non of this "Have a gentle steam with essences of citrus and thyme" I want to evicerate my fucking nostrils. I want my nose fucking clear and I don't give a fuck how I get there. We're looking for peak efficiency here, hot sauce is the obvious answer but it's not enough.

[Anonymous No.12861282]

>>12861272
I've got some garlic, I've got some cayenne, I can go to the store if I need to, I'd rather cook something instead of just shoving hot peppers into my mouth like a fucking animal, but that option is on the table.

[Anonymous No.12861288]

>>12861272
go to a doctor

[Anonymous No.12861300]

>>12861272
>nettle pot
>garlic
>whiskey
>hot sauce
>ginger
>onions
>Grapefruit
>Cayenne pepper

[Anonymous No.12861312]

Order sushi and eat all of the wasabi at once.

[Anonymous No.12861322]

>>12861272
Get one of these things, I don't know how they're called in English. Use it to run hot salt water through your nose from one nostril to the other. For me that gives instant relief even when my nose is severely clogged.

[Anonymous No.12861329]

>>12861272
Unreleted but I used to have very bad sinus infection and one night I was drunk, found a scooter in the street, rode it for two seconds and fell right on my nose, which broke, and now my sinuses have never been so clean and free, maybe try breaking your nose

[Anonymous No.12861334]

Simply Saline is the neti pot saline rinse that is kind of like a jet wash, in a pressurized can. It's nice because sterile between uses, so good for intermittant usage. If this is constant though, you should buy a jug of distilled water and the squeeze bottle and saline packet company called Sinu-Rinse, it's better, because you can warm it, and really use a ton more. You can also double the packets of saline and it becomes hypertonic and really dries out the sinus congestion, esp at bedtime before sleeping, so moisture doesn't drip on your Eustachian tubes or into your chest, to get a secondary infection.

Flonase is a good inflammation reducing nose spray to use daily.
Afrin will clear a nose like nobody's business, and good to use before a flight, but not good for more than 3 days or so.

Foodwise, be very very hydrated. More hydrated you are, the more thin your body makes the mucous and easier to blow out when you blow your nose, but also forces out infection or a virus.
Expectorants like guafinisin can also kick up thin mucous production too, not just in the chest.
Drink a lot of water when downing your sudafed, it needs it to work. Don't buy the fake over the counter inferior versions of decongestant, but the sign-for-it original versions at the pharmacy desk.
Pho soup, big bowls of noodle soup, anything you'll be leaning over in a big way, will simulate the steam in the nose action you want to get up in there. Onions, chicken bone broth are highly ranked sick and mucous fighters. But, also high in vitamin and some nose running action is the fresh hot chilies, so pho again, is nice with plenty of sliced chilies floating on the top. Nom nom them up and feel the burn. Add lime and up your citrus while at it.
Hot mustard dip for an egg roll, wasabi on a sushi roll, any horseradish you can tolerate is gonna give you good vapors and make the nose run a bit.

If it's just one side, might be that's the side you sleep on, and there could be infection.

[Anonymous No.12861343]

Cayenne pepper tea? Or just snort it raw.

Coming helps for about 5 seconds before your nose closes back up again. Longer term, take cetirizine.

[Anonymous No.12861356]

>>12861272
Hot bowl of ramen WITH THE SOUP and add a pinch of cayenne, ginger, to the broth. Drizzle EXTRA hot sauce over. Fuckton of green onions especially the white part minced up, the acidity will help the other ingredients along. Make sure you drink the broth.

[Anonymous No.12861358]

>>12861288
lol
>>12861300
Grapefruit? I mixed cayenne about 50/50 with some hot paprika and added a fair amount of it to some goulasch I had. That's helping, but it's not enough.
>>12861312
Hadn't thought of this, probably gonna try this next, I like horseradish a lot.
>>12861322
>>12861334
Definitely going to consider some sort of saline solution, I'll pick one up later, along with better decongestants. I've been drinking a fuck ton of water, I can make some noodles later.

>If it's just one side, might be that's the side you sleep on, and there could be infection.
If I keep my head tilted for long enough the other nostril becomes clogged. Feel fine, it's just clogged for now.

Probably gonna make Shakshouka with a bunch of garlic and chillis too

[Anonymous No.12861366]

>>12861272
Go get Zicam nasal spray.
I get chronic sinus infections, it’s the only way I get sick and it fucking blows
The only thing that ever helps is nasal spray
Decongestants work until your body works up an immunity to them, hot showers help until you leave the steamy bathroom. Hell even the “just eat garlic” meme never helps
Spray some shit up your nose, drink tons of water and tough it out

[Anonymous No.12861368]

otrivine my dude, or "Xylometazoline"

>t. someone with blocked up sinuses right now

[Anonymous No.12861370]

>>12861366
>Go get Zicam nasal spray.
The zinc destroys your taste buds for life. They have lawsuits.

[Anonymous No.12861371]

>>12861272
Make some chicken soup and add the hottest chilis you can get your hands on.

[Anonymous No.12861379]

>>12861370
I’m looking at my zicam box right now, there’s no zinc in it

[Anonymous No.12861383]

>>12861322
Neti pot

[Anonymous No.12861385]

This shit always helps me

[Anonymous No.12861386]

>>12861370
>>12861379
Notice I said nasal spray
The only zicam that has the zinc in it is the pills and tablets

[Anonymous No.12861398]

>>12861379
You are likely looking at the inactive carrier and preservative ingredients, not the "active" ingredient/drug itself.

[Anonymous No.12861402]

>>12861322
>>12861358
Yeah, Neti Pots are great.
Tilt your head back just a little bit, but not too much. If you feel it running down your throat, lean forward a little more.
It literally flushes our sinuses. The way runs through your nasal cavities and flushes our everything in there.
It feels kinda uncomfortable at first, but after you do two or three times you start to enjoy it.

REMEMBER: DON'T USE TAP WATER. Only use distilled water.

[Anonymous No.12861404]

>>12861272
Don't waste you're time with pills. Use a shotgun to clear your sinus congestion.

[Anonymous No.12861406]

>>12861404
based

[Anonymous No.12861433]

>>12861272
Order in some hot wings. Medium-hot +/- 1 depending on your tolerance. You want somethig spicy but not to the point that it hurts to eat. That'll clear you up.

[Anonymous No.12861440]

>>12861272
That sounds like the beginning of pneumonia. See a doctor or embrace death.

[Anonymous No.12861446]

See a doctor. If American and can't afford the $250 visit plus $199 for medication try eating raw ginger or wasabi/horseradish

[Anonymous No.12861450]

>>12861446
>so free they'd rather be ill than pay for help
>the absolute state of yanks

[Anonymous No.12861459]

>>12861450
Obsessed
Only poorfags can’t go to the doctor for lack of health insurance

[Anonymous No.12861468]

>>12861450
Everyone, but illegal immigrants, and degenerates has insurance in America.

[Anonymous No.12861479]

>>12861459
remember to tip your doctor anon

[Anonymous No.12861485]

i was congested as fuck yesterday, been eating thai 'nam phrik' sauce with all my meals, and instantly after every meal i could blow my nose and get rid of the mucus. Just smash up 5 cloves of garlic, 5 thai bird eye chilis up with a tiny bit of salt in a mortar, add palm or other sugar, add juice of one lime, add fish sauce

[Anonymous No.12861489]

>>12861450
US Healthcare is such an oversized bloated dragon that nothing short of full-scale orbital bombardment can take it down/out. Shit, if anyone tries to reform it, will get swamped by lobbyists, pharma corpies and rich.

>>12861272
Raddish, paprika, horseraddish. As usual food - no alchemy potion brewing needed. There are paprika-flavoured waffers, or horseraddish spread for bread/salads, or just raw grated with sandwich/salad. Try to eat some raw raddish - wash it, core the tips.

[Anonymous No.12861490]

>>12861272
You may have sinusitis, happened to me a month ago after a really bad flu. Couldn't smell shit for weeks which meant my palate was shit as well. You are probably gonna have to suck it up for a time and that's it.

[Anonymous No.12862296]

>>12861272
Chew some garlic

[Anonymous No.12862935]

>>12861272
Horseradish dummy

[Anonymous No.12864454]

>>12862935
Came here to suggest this, theres no way a small dab of horseradish will not destroy your congestion and vaporise some nose hairs with it.

[Anonymous No.12864487]

>>12861272
>taken decongestants
Oral ones? Those almost never work, phenylephrine isn't clinically proven to do anything. Get some Afrin, the kind in the bottle you squirt up your nose. I've had the same issue for a long time and it's the only stuff that works for me.
Don't get the generic kind, desu. I got the store brand stuff once, and while it technically worked, I was in unspeakable burning pain in my nostrils for 12 hours.

[Anonymous No.12864499]

>>12861272
Go for a run, should make your nose clear out like water.

[Anonymous No.12864525]

>>12861272
Something that always works for me is those powders that you put in a little squeezy bottle with warm water and squirt up your nose. If one packet doesn't work then try two packets. Guaranteed to clean out all the shit clogging your nose.

[Anonymous No.12864717]

I usually just eat a tiny spoon of prepared extra extra spicy horseradish and that clears it right up. Even better if you love horseradish as you've said.

As far as cooking - liquid heat (temperature heat) will help loosen the mucus, so you could try soup. Try extra spicy soup for a double-whammy. Alternative, grind fresh black pepper directly into your nose and sneeze everything out.

[Anonymous No.12864845]

pair that decongestant with an antihistamine to dry things up

[Anonymous No.12864930]

Cilantro enema. Worked for me.

[Anonymous No.12864938]

Horseradish fsho

[Anonymous No.12864974]

>>12861272
>decongestants
these make congestion worse over time. They constrict the tiny blood vessels in your sinuses to reduce mucus generation, but the body reacts by growing MORE blood vessels. Never use decongestants.

Inhaling hot steam is probably your best bet.