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Mucus drainage and cilia motility
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Mucus drainage and cilia motility
It makes sense because cilia are the mechanism that causes mucus to move along and flow in the right directions, allowing the sinuses to drain etc. If mucus doesnt flow it stagnates and smells.
Cilia motility (correct functioning) can be tested by placing a small sugary tablet into the nose and timing how long it takes until it reaches the throat and can be tasted. Has anyone had this test before?
This kind of problem could just start out of the blue and is probably sensitive to all kinds of influences, like hormones etc and there might be some correlation with the common age of onset of BB that most people seem to report, around the age of puberty.
Anyone with upcoming ENT appointments or considering making ENT appointments, it might be an idea to make a note of asking for this test and for opinion on this.
From wikipedia:-
"It has recently been shown that biofilms are present on the removed tissue of 80% of patients undergoing surgery for chronic sinusitis. The patients with biofilms were shown to have been denuded of cilia and goblet cells, unlike the controls without biofilms who had normal cilia and goblet cell morphology."
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I notice lots of people get improvements (in BB and PND) through such measures, and maybe it shows this is nothing to do with infections or abnormalities in the nose afterall, but something as simple as the cilia. Things like steroid nasal sprays, could they be having some sort of hormonal or chemical effect on the cilia? I know cystic fibrosis has something to do with the same mechanisms that keep the lungs and airways clear, but because the nose is what drains onto the rear of the tongue and straight onto the breeding ground of the tongue, this makes it so significant potentially regarding BB.
I cant remember who it was, but there was some guy recently who swore he cured his BB by using some ancient practice of passing a piece of "string" into his nose until it comes out of his throat and then he pulls the end out through his mouth and then moves it gently back and forth allowing it to clean the stagnated mucus away. He said this practice TOTALLY cured his BB.
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have you read much about how its biofilms usually responsible for chronic sinus infections and how difficult (but not impossible) they are to eradicate. Fungal balls and fungal growths and allergic reactions to fungal presense?
Bacterial biofilms are the same process as what builds up and blocks drains. And think about the smell that makes.