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 and the 2022 article on Homemade nasal rinses and sprays. Diluted Povidone Iodine is a good spray or nasal rinse and Iodine fumes clear the nose too but there are many options. 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