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Originally Posted by AlJo  I had that cold, it usually hangs on for a few weeks but mine only lasted about a week. I kicked it quickly by: (this may not be pretty but it works killer)
Dealing with the Sinus:
1. If you have a runny nose or clogged sinus passages... don't suck on candy or cough drops of any sort. The sucking actually pulls the mucus down the back of your throat and gets into your lungs... and makes things waaay worse.
Not to be picky, but when you swallow, things do NOT go into your lungs, unless you aspirate and it goes down your trachea instead of your esophagus. Normally when you suck, you swallow; and it goes into your esophagus into your DIGESTIVE tract, not your RESPIRATORY tract. Unless, you happened to be coughing aggressively and aspirated it into your trachea and into your lungs. It is true that when things go down into your lungs it can set you up for a bacterial infection, but normal, active, usually healthy individuals don't usally get aspiration pneumonias; it's usually physically compromised people that happens to. |
I'm not a nurse or anything but I looked into it for my mom, she's suffered really bad for years.
The swallowing action causes suction against the the thick mucus sitting in your sinus cavity (that's why you can't breath), the suction slowly pulls the thick mucus down your throat.
There are usually 3 outcomes for the mucus; 1. spit 2. swallow or 3. breath
Though the mucus is broken loose from swallowing, the avarage human spends more time breathing than swallowing... which leaves the wind pipe wide open.
The lungs themselves don't produce phlem (mucus), it slides down there from your nose and your body actually uses coughing to clean the lungs. The agressive action breaks up the phlem (mucus) so it can be expelled.
No worries about "being picky", we're all here to share and learn.
Alana