Any natural ways to cure chronic rhinitis?

I should say that normally once I’m up it clears up and I can breathe out of both – so I’m assuming it isn’t an infection? Then at night it clogs up again!

Try replacing your pillowcase? Just a guess.

Yeah I think my pillow case is really really old… I’ve had it for about 8 years….. so that’s not bad advice.

Have you tried nose irragation? With a netty pot. It’s called hydro-sence in Canada.

I did but that is what gave me the brain parasite scare so not sure I can bring myself to do it again @RedDeerGuy1 !!!!!

@tan253 OK.

I’d try for a new pillow first. Does it happen when you lay down on the sofa?

You could try Augmentin (penicillin antibiotic) and see if it helps. You would know by day 5 if it’s doing anything. Another is Levoxin (quinolone antibiotic) but if Augmentin works that has less risk of serious side effects.

I’d probably hold off on drugging yourself with antibiotics until you’re sick with something else and need one. If either of those will kill the infection that really needs treating when you have a new illness, then ask for one of those to test it.

They might be called something else in your country.

Your doctor might be prescribing doxi hoping it will have an anti-inflammatory effect. I personally think that’s bullshit.

Start with new pillows and pillowcases. Medication is always a last case option for me (and my doctor, thank goodness).

@JLeslie that’s exactly what he did! You’re very clever, he said, I’ll prescribe you this as it has a anti-inflammatory effect!
It’s only a little bit blocked now and I’m up and about, I find that if I swap the side I lie on the other nose gets blocked… so maybe not polyps but could be a deviated septum as that runs in my family.
Will test pillow and sofa – that’s a good thought… will do it now!

@tan253 Yeah, I’m not a doctor, but I don’t believe in that anti-inflammatory schtick when it comes to antibiotics at all. I think for whatever reason the medical establishment is against believing certain illnesses are caused by infection. To me, if an antibiotic works, it’s because the infection is being killed off, whether we have identified the infection or not.

Has this been going on for a long time? Or is it a fairly recent thing?

Could it be some form of allergy? I know we have plants that only flower at certain times of the year. I’d think your nose would block on both sides, but perhaps some people have one side that’s more prone to blocking than others. Something must be causing the inflammation. So if you can find out what it is, you can get rid of the irritant.

Pillows.
OTC Flonase

yeah it’s just blocked, right now the right one is blocked so badly that it’s hurting, no air can get in.
Then sometimes they are both fine!
It’s driving me nuts, seeing the ENT next week so that will be great!

I think the ENT will prescribe what @Rarebear said. Hopefully, that does the trick. In America I’m pretty sure you can get Flonase OTC. i think it’s a steroid, so that means almost for sure it will help, the thing is, is it helping with the underlying cause or not.