Humming for sinuses?

Humming?

Some of you may be wondering, what are sinuses? Well, they are small hollow holes inside your skull that surround the nose and are lined with tissue. If you want to see a photo, you can check out this link.  

Those pesky little sinuses have a habit of getting swollen, filled with mucus, and infected.

If  you have had a sinus infection, you know how painful it can be. You may have pain on either side of your nose, between your eyes, in your forehead or even in your upper teeth and jaw. How's that for fun?

If you have allergies and asthma, you are more likely to have a sinus infection. 

Your doctor may give you an antibiotic to help with the infection.


Some people swear by using a Neti Pot. It's fun - like jumping into a swimming pool and forgetting to plug your nose.

Asthma Doc let us know our options, but also mentioned humming. He said he learned about it at a national allergy, asthma and immunology conference.

Sounds weird, I know! But we decide to try it since my daughter had just finished a course of antibiotics for pneumonia and I didn't want her to do another round.

So, we hummed. In the car, while she was playing, in the bathtub.

How can that possibly work? Researchers in Sweden found that increasing air flow and ventilation in the nose helped the sinuses stay healthy.

They measured exhaled nitric oxide (NO) coming out of the nose and found that by humming, air flow increased by 15 times!

Sounds crazy, but apparently it works! Some researchers also recommend humming each day to maintain the sinus health.

Worth a shot, right?