Amazing way to unblock your nose

[Tomás Ó hÉilidhe-3]

I had a really badly blocked nose today, so bad that it was really
annoying me, so bad that I actually decided to google how best to
unblock my nose (yes it was really that bad).

I found the following nothing short of amazing:

Keep your mouth firmly shut.
Exhale fully through your nose.
Pinch your nose with your fingers.
Nodd your head up and down.
Keep doing it...
and doing it...
and doing it...
and doing it...
..until you can't hold it any longer, inhale violently through your nose
Your nose will be clear!

I hear the theory behind it is to do with carbon dioxide. Your body
senses you've got too much of it and it reacts by mysteriously
unblocking your nose in an instant. Goes to show you what your body can
really do if it's bothered.

Tomás

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[Apptech]

> ... I actually decided to google how best to
> unblock my nose (yes it was really that bad).

A deep whiff of "880" Ammonia solution is even quicker and
clears your nose all the way to the bottom of your lungs to
boot. Feels like it's been done with a red hot poker.

At least once in life it's worth a casual whiff of '880'
using a waved hand (oe dead fish) from a bottle at arms
length just to get the general idea. I've had the close to
full whiff experience and think that nodding my head sounds
more desirable by many orders of magnitude.




        Russell


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[Jinx-4]

My head is just swimming with responses involving [PIC]

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[Roger, in Bangkok]

I find that sticking my chin up in the air and "shaving" my throat and neck
with a vibrator for a couple of minutes does about as well as anything.

RiB

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Apptech <apptech@...> wrote:

> > ... I actually decided to google how best to
> > unblock my nose (yes it was really that bad).
>
> A deep whiff of "880" Ammonia solution is even quicker and
> clears your nose all the way to the bottom of your lungs to
> boot. Feels like it's been done with a red hot poker.
>
> At least once in life it's worth a casual whiff of '880'
> using a waved hand (oe dead fish) from a bottle at arms
> length just to get the general idea. I've had the close to
> full whiff experience and think that nodding my head sounds
> more desirable by many orders of magnitude.
>
>
>
>
>        Russell
>
>
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[Alan B. Pearce]

>..until you can't hold it any longer, inhale violently
>through your nose
>Your nose will be clear!

If my nose was that blocked I think I would prefer to exhale ...
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[Rolf-4]

Roger, my mind boggles, the alternative uses of all sorts of technology
in Bangkok.... ;-O

Do I mis-interpret what you mean by 'vibrator'.

Then again, that may be an interesting project with a PIC.

Rolf

Roger, in Bangkok wrote:

> I find that sticking my chin up in the air and "shaving" my throat and neck
> with a vibrator for a couple of minutes does about as well as anything.
>
> RiB
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Apptech <apptech@...> wrote:
>
>  
>>> ... I actually decided to google how best to
>>> unblock my nose (yes it was really that bad).
>>>      
>> A deep whiff of "880" Ammonia solution is even quicker and
>> clears your nose all the way to the bottom of your lungs to
>> boot. Feels like it's been done with a red hot poker.
>>
>>    

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[Jinx-4]

> Then again, that may be an interesting project with a PIC.

A digital solution to this problem has been around for a while

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[Roger, in Bangkok]

"Standard issue" are fine, I expect the Patpong versions would be sorely
underpowered and not competativelt priced.

Good eye, Rolf, I don't normally leave such doors so widely open:-))

RiB

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Rolf <learr@...> wrote:

> Roger, my mind boggles, the alternative uses of all sorts of technology
> in Bangkok.... ;-O
>
> Do I mis-interpret what you mean by 'vibrator'.
>
> Then again, that may be an interesting project with a PIC.
>
> Rolf
> ...
>

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[James Bendall-2]

Rolf wrote:
> Roger, my mind boggles, the alternative uses of all sorts of technology
> in Bangkok.... ;-O
>
> Do I mis-interpret what you mean by 'vibrator'.
>
> Then again, that may be an interesting project with a PIC.

Someone I know wrote code for the AVR to do this. The original vibrator
used a PIC12C508 (Ann Summers)

http://www.desdes.com/downloads/vibe1.rtf

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[Marc Nicholas-2]

PIC your nose list? ;)

-marc

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Jinx <joecolquitt@...> wrote:

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[Michael Rigby-Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@... [mailto:piclist-bounces@...] On
Behalf
> Of Jinx
> Sent: 29 August 2008 12:52
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT] Amazing way to unblock your nose
>
> > Then again, that may be an interesting project with a PIC.
>
> A digital solution to this problem has been around for a while

Surely that would be cutting your nose off to spite your face? :D

Mike

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[Bob Blick-4]

I see a chicken-and-egg problem - If your nose is blocked to begin with,
how do you exhale fully through your nose?

Cheerful regards,

Bob


Tomás Ó hÉilidhe wrote:

> I had a really badly blocked nose today, so bad that it was really
> annoying me, so bad that I actually decided to google how best to
> unblock my nose (yes it was really that bad).
>
> I found the following nothing short of amazing:
>
> Keep your mouth firmly shut.
> Exhale fully through your nose.
> Pinch your nose with your fingers.
> Nodd your head up and down.
> Keep doing it...
> and doing it...
> and doing it...
> and doing it...
> ..until you can't hold it any longer, inhale violently through your nose
> Your nose will be clear!
>
> I hear the theory behind it is to do with carbon dioxide. Your body
> senses you've got too much of it and it reacts by mysteriously
> unblocking your nose in an instant. Goes to show you what your body can
> really do if it's bothered.
>
> Tomás
>

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