Free Yourself from Sinus and Allergy Problems- Permanently
From the Book
Nasal Cilia
This book offers useful facts to help you deal with sinus problems. In your body is a wonderful mechanism called mucociliary clearance—let’s just call it MCL—which is a process involving cilia that, like tiny oars of a boat, move bacteria and toxins out of your body by working in a liquid medium called mucus. As long as this system works, you are able to maintain proper respiratory health in your nose, sinuses, and lungs.
Natural Defense
Normally, bacteria enter your nose. The bacteria get trapped in the mucus of your nose. Before they have a chance to multiply and make you sick, the bacteria are swept along by the millions of tiny oars—the cilia—to the back of the throat, where they are swallowed and killed by stomach acid. When you are healthy, bacteria and viruses are swept away by this cilia system.
There are other defenses, too. There are enzymes, such as lysozyme, in the mucus, as well as good white cells that also attack the bacteria. Healthy mucus defends with Immunoglobulin A, Immunoglobulin G (IgE), Lactoferin and other antibacterial and antifungal factors.
In allergy, there are cells that produce antibodies to dilute and neutralize the offending pollens so that they won’t harm the body. So why do thirty-seven million persons have sinus disease?
37 Million Sinus Sufferers
Smog is one cause. Smoking is another. Reduced resistance to colds also is a factor. Later in the book is a list of products that slow the cilia. For example, getting stuck behind a diesel bus or getting chilled are important causes of sinus disease. With the common cold, the infection may be so severe that the cilia function doesn’t return, and then a bacterial infection starts. This happens if you don’t get enough rest or sleep. If your cilia don’t sweep away the bacteria, then they remain in the nose, get married, and raise families.
You have an immune system. There are special proteins floating in your bloodstream called antibodies. Most often in childhood, you build up resistance to germs with antibodies. But if you grow up on an isolated island where there is no disease, and then you come to my town, you may lack the antibodies to ward off common illnesses, so you will remain sick until your body builds the antibody system.
Jean S., age twenty-four, grew up in Bermuda, a fairly isolated island. She was never sick. Then she moved to New York. For two years, she was sick almost constantly until her body built up antibodies.
The new field of psychoneuroimmunology teaches that depression, carrying a long sad face can lower one’s immune factors. Even an actor playing a role on stage nightly can have a reduced resistance when he constantly plays sad, depressed roles! To prevent a cold, smile and tell a joke!
An allergy, in one sense, is a defense, but it is too much of a good thing. You are supposed to sneeze to get loads of dust out of your nose. But when you sneeze nonstop when there is just a tiny bit of dust, that’s an allergy—and it isn’t healthy.
Unfortunately, it gets more complicated. You are allergic to roses and sneeze or wheeze when you enter the florist shop. You wheeze when someone puts roses in your bedroom. But you also sneeze when someone puts fake silk roses in the bedroom. Your MIND enters the equation.
The purpose of this book is to show you how to best keep your nasal cilia moving well, so that you don’t become ill. I will also discuss how the bacteria are fighting back- they actually get together and build something like covers, like an igloo, to keep the antibodies or the antibiotics from getting to them. And they are developing greater resistance to antibiotics. This is why learning these new, better approaches to sinus health are so important.
For example, after a bad, lengthy allergy attack, your nasal cilia may be exhausted and you may get a sinus infection. By using a saline pulse wave at the right frequency, the wave action of the Hydro Pulse gently waves the cilia back and forth so that they resume their normal rate of speed. This prevents the sinus infection.
From Free Yourself From Sinus and Allergy Problems Permanently by Murray Grossan, M.D.