Genuine question. I once had a medical doctor who swore by saline nose/throat gargling for upper respiratory tract illnesses—he was a by the book, orthodox, evidence-based doc. I did not research it. Anyone know the evidentiary status of his claim? I did not see a recent review.
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By the way, why rigorously test folk-remedies? First: sometimes there’s unintended harm you can uncover only through proper trial. Second: if beneficial, yeay! Third: if no effect found? It seems that the placebo benefit is essentially unshakable, so no harm in finding no effect.
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Also CDC has an annual budget of $6.5B. You would think they could be doing a lot of crowd sourced research like this.
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If I had to guess, a nasal rinse might only remove stray/detectable particles, thus producing a false negative? Though I'd also guess that this might contribute to lower overall viral load, which seems good.
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You’d think if you did a nasal rinse it might reduce how much you spread at that moment…until more makes its way to the surface. May not be a bad thing but I doubt many would do it. Plus we all have mouths too, making it semi useless to do just the nose.
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All this experimentation with rapid tests is fantastic! I just wish we had greater supply so people were able to try these types of things. A major loss of knowledge from rationing rapid tests.
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I don't think this is a folk remedy any more than Ignaz Semmelweis thought hand washing was. It's simply hygeine. only 7% of Americans brushed their teeth in 1900 - now we know better. https://www.209nycdental.com/history-lesson-america-started-brush-teeth/ … 1/2
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My research is opioid reduction through vibratory pain relief; my income comes from a device I invented to promote vaccination. Testified to HHS about pain/fear reduction for vaccination in the 52% of unvax with mod-severe fear without results, hence this to save SOME. 2/2
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