October 2024

Treating a nasal infection with ClO2

This is a follow-up on my April 2024 post about Treating a nasal infection with iodine. Diluted Povidone Iodine is a good spray or nasal rinse and Iodine fumes clear the nose too. Steve Kirsch mentioned recently on his show that he switched from Xclear nasal spray to ClO₂ nasal spray. Chlorine Dioxide is indeed an interesting alternative. It's less aggressive than iodine and therefore less irritating for the nose. There is even a commercial product known as "Snoot! Awesome Nasal Cleanser". So I decided to try this. I did not buy the Snoot kit but but simply mixed my own:

I used 25% NaClO₂ + 4% HCl, 5 drops in 30ml of previously boiled water
procedure:
1. bring water to a rolling boil in order to sterilize it, let it cool down
2. mix 5 drops of Sodium Chlorite solution and 5 drops of Hydrochloric Acid solution in the corner of a clean glass
3. wait 30sec for the mixture to turn yellow-brown
4. add 30ml of the sterilized water
5. fill into a nasal spray bottle

If I have been around people all day and I come home with a slightly stuffy nose then I clean my nose with this homemade ClO₂ nasal spray. It works well.

Diluted Iodine Nasal Spray and Chlorine Dioxide Nasal Spray: the Chlorine Dioxide Nasal Spray is more gentile but as effective against corona viruses

Nasa called ClO₂ "A Univeral Antidote". In the 1980s it was known as "Alcide" and it was a newly discovered substance with a variety of potential applications:

Pharmacodynamics of alcide, a new antimicrobial compound,
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6745537/

Nasa Spinoff magazine, 1988, page 118: A Univeral Antidote,
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/back_issues_archives/1988.pdf