How to Get Rid of Stuffy Nose at Home Naturally?

Stuffy nose is also refers to Nasal congestion or blocked nose or congested nose which is caused by cold, flu, allergies (all types) or sinus infection which in turn caused by the inflamed or irritated blood vessels in your sinuses or in the membranes lining inside your nostrils then they produce excess mucus in your nose which will block the respiratory passages and make you feel difficulty in breathing and it is a life threatening to new born babies and for adults and kids, it is an uncomfortable process. Fortunately, this stuffy nose problem will be cleared with these natural home remedies and tips which are very effective and saves your time and money.

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Home Remedies for Stuffy Nose:

Stuffy nose or clogged nose will makes you breath difficulty. It is a result of thick mucus in your nasal passages. Whatever the reasons for this stuffy nose, here are the best natural home remedies which help you to get relief from the stuffy nose and makes you breathe comfortably.

1. Remedy for Stuffy Nose with Steam:

Steam is one of the best remedy for any respiratory problems like cold, flu, sinus, stuffy nose, etc. This steam helps to thin the mucus in your nose or sinuses so that the inflammation will be reduced and helps you to breathe normally.

Process:

1. Take a bowl full of water and heat it for few minutes
2. Turn off the heat when once the actual temperature has achieved.
3. Then place a towel over your head and cover your head and the bowel so that no air or steam will escape from it.
4. Now slowly inhale and exhale the steam until you get relief from the congestion
5. Remember that you have to put near to bowl but not in the bowl as this will burn your face.
6. Do this process twice a day, once in the morning and once in the night before going to bed for normal breathing, until you get complete relief from the congestion.
7. Or you can add few drops of any essential oils like tea tree oil, peppermint oil, eucalyptus oil, etc. or a teaspoon of crushed carom seeds in your stem water and inhale the steam like aromatherapy.

2. Remedies for Stuffy Nose with Garlic:

Garlic acts as a natural anti-viral which is quite used in the treatment of viral infections like cold, influenza, sinus that causes stuffy nose to fight against the infection. Garlic contains a pungent taste which releases secretions that helps to drain the nasal passages and makes you breathe comfortably. It also helps to increase your immune system when taken regularly.

Process – 1:

1. Take few freshly peeled garlic cloves and eat it regularly
2. Chewing these garlic cloves will helps to give relief from the blocked nose and discomfort.
3. Or you can eat this regularly in the form of soups, or any cooked form of food, in your recipes, etc.

Process – 2:

1. Take 3 – 4 freshly peeled garlic cloves and boil this in a cup of water
2. You can add 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder into it
3. Stir it well and drink this to get relief.
4. Regular intake of this juice until and unless you get relief from the nasal congestion will give better result in clearing your congestion. 

3. Remedies for Stuffy Nose with Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV):

Apple cider vinegar helps to clear the stuffy nose by thinning the mucus quickly and drain out the sinuses, if it is taken straight without any flavorings. It helps to clean your nose and nasal passage for a comfortable breath.

Process – 1:

1. Take a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar
2. Mix it in a cup of water
3. Drink this to get relief from the blocked nose.

Process – 2:

1. Take two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and one tablespoon of honey
2. Stir it in a cup of warm water as honey and ACV has to dissolve completely in water
3. Consume it for quick relief from the nasal congestion.
4. Regularly take this solution for 2 – 3 a day for faster relief from the stuffy nose. 

4. Remedy for Stuffy Nose with Acupressure:

Acupressure will also work well to reduce the pressure in the sinuses and it is one of the old remedy. Acupuncture means applying some pressure on the particular points where you get relief from the problem. Here you have to apply pressure on both sides of the eye cavity.

Process:

1. First of all, place your both index fingers on either side of the eye cavity i.e. above the nose and just below the eye brow
2. Then start massaging the sinuses in outward circles around your nose with your fingers.
3. Repeat this for 20 – 30 seconds and take out your fingers
4. Then secondly, place your index fingers on the outside of your eyes right below them
5. Then follow the same process i.e. use your fingers to massage your sinuses around your eyes in outward circles for about 20 – 35 seconds.
6. Then finally, place your thumbs on either of your cheek bones
7. Massage it on outward circles and repeat it for 20 – 35 seconds.
8. Repeat the entire massage process again and again for 4 – 5 times until you get relief from the sinuses pressure and from stuffy nose to runny nose.

5. Remedy for Stuffy Nose with Tomato Juice:

Tomatoes are rich in vitamin C which will boost your immune system and also works to open up the sinuses to remove the mucus and also reduce the inflammation in the vessels.

Process:

1. Take a cup of tomato juice and add a tablespoon of chopped garlic, 1/2 tablespoon of hot sauce, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and a little of celery salt.
2. Mix the ingredients well and boil it in a pot on stove or a container in microwave for few minutes
3. Take it out and drink this hot tomato juice for quick relief.
4. You have to drink this hot tomato juice for at least twice a day for quick relief from the stuffy nose.

6. Remedy for Stuffy Nose with Neti pot:

Neti pot is used to clear your nasal passages by removing the congestion. Neti pot is specially designed to flush out the impurities and mucus in your nasal passage. Remember that never use this process if you suffers from flu or if you’re doing for the first time without any medical practitioner.

Process:

1. Firstly prepare the salt water solution i.e. a teaspoon of salt to be dissolved a glass of warm water (distilled or sterile but not tap water)
2. Stir it and pour it in a neti pot as saline solution.
3. Then tilt your head over sink and place the spout of the pot in your nostril
4. Tilt the pot until the water enters into your nasal passages.
5. Then the water flows into other nostril and cleaning away the impurities and mucus to reduce the nasal congestion
6. Continue this for a minute or two and then switch to other side and continue doing the same process.
7. Regularly do this process but make sure that the water has to be flowed out to get rid of the stuffy nose or else the problem become worse than normal. 

7. Remedy for Stuffy Nose with Humidifier:

Always use humidifier or vaporizer which increases the humidity in your room as this machine converts the water into moisture than to air. Breathing in moist air will helps to soothe irritated tissue and swollen blood vessels in the nose and sinuses that causing clogged nose. Thinning the mucus in your sinuses and emptying the fluids in your nose to return your normal breath is an added advantage for using this humidifier. If you want to make your own humidifier, then take a pot and pour water into it. Bring this t boiling and place this pot in your room and have a rest there in that room as it gives the results like humidifier but for short span of time.

8. Remedy for Stuffy Nose with Fenugreek:

Fenugreek is a natural anti inflammatory which helps to open up the sinus cavities and thin the mucus. The hot and moisture fenugreek solution will thin the thick mucus and clears your nasal passage and reduces the swelling in the blood vessels.

Process:

1. Take some fenugreek seeds and mix them in a cup of drinking water
2. Boil this water for few minutes and turn off the heat and take it out
3. Strain the solution and drink this warm solution
4. Several times in a day, you have to repeat the process until and unless you get complete relief from the stuffy nose.

9. Remedy for Stuffy Nose with Saline Solution and Bulb Syringe (For infants):

Stuffy nose is a life threatening problem for infants why because they can’t breathe with their mouths. This will rise during breastfeeding and you can’t simply blow their nose but have to follow a method which relieves your infants by cleaning out the mucus.

Process: (Bulb Syringe)

1. Place your infant on a flat surface with towel rolled to beneath the shoulders to tip of head back.
2. Then place few drops of saline solution (mix 1/4 teaspoon of salt in 1/2 cup of lukewarm water completely) in each of the nostril and allow it to loosen the mucus for 30 – 60 seconds
3. Now turn your baby on their stomach to make the mucus drain out completely.
4. Take a bulb syringe or nasal aspirator and push out the air inside it
5. Insert this into your baby nostril and gently release the bulb so that it will squeeze the mucus
6. Take a tissue and remove the mucus into it to clean the bulb syringe.
7. Repeat the same process to the other nostrils until the mucus is cleared and your baby has comfortable breathing.
8. Or you can simply take a tissue and roll it into a small cone and swab it around their nostrils but remember that not to use the cotton swab into your baby nose or ear. 

10. Remedy for Stuffy Nose by Staying Hydrated:

Staying hydrated will also helps you to prevent the stuffy nose why because the extra moisture in your passage will helps to soothe your irritated or inflamed nasal passages and reduces the sinus blockages. So, always have the liquids like water, fruit juices, sports drink, herbal or ordinary teas, soups, broths, etc. which will helps to thin the mucus in your nasal passages and reduces the pressure in your sinuses by pushing out the fluids from your nose.  

11. Remedy for Stuffy Nose with Vapor Rub:

Most of the people will believe that a vapor rub which contains menthol, eucalyptus or camphor will ease the congestion when inhaled the vapors. So take a vapor rub and rub it on your throat, chest, nose, backside to get better sleep and also inhale this vapor to get open the clogged nose. Or if you don’t have a vapor rub then simply dab one or two drops of peppermint oil and apply it as mentioned above will give same result like vapor rub.

12. Remedy for Stuffy Nose with Diet Plan:

Planning for your diet will have an effective impact on your health. So, you have to plan your diet according to your health condition by including these foods.

• Eat more spicy food than regular which helps to give relief from the congested sinuses. Drink lot of water while you’re eating the dish and at the end of your meal you’ll find that you’ve running nose. Then blow out the mucus as much as it comes out.
• Stay away from the wheat, other whole grains, milk and other dairy products as they will increase the problem rather than to increase. So, it’s better to avoid it until you get complete relief from the sinus and stuffy nose.
• Regularly have chicken soup which is a well known diet for the people who are suffering from stuffy nose. Add pepper to make it spicy as spicy food will helps to open up the blocked respiratory nasal passages for comfortable breath.
• Include the food which contains vitamin C, zinc, etc. in your diet which helps to strength your immune system and to fight against the mucus to clear your respiratory passage.
• Include the food items like ginger, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, garlic, onions, pepper, and other spies in your diet.
• Avoid refined sugar and sugary products, like candies, chocolates, doughnuts, cakes and cookies.
• Avoid cool drinks and other carbonated beverages which will increase the problem. Always have hot beverages, hot drinks like herbal teas, vegetable broths, etc to get rid of the stuffy nose.

Tips to Reduce the Stuffy Nose:

Are you having a problem while breathing due to this stuffy nose? Then follow these simple tips which will effectively reduce your stuffy nose and helps you to breathe comfortably.

1. Have a steamy shower which helps to thin the mucus in your sinuses and reduces the inflammation that causes congestion. It helps for a shorter period of time but relieves best.
2. Use a warm compress which helps to open up your nasal passage from outside. For this, you have to soak a towel in warm water and squeeze out the water from the towel and fold it to place it on your face particularly on your nose and forehead to ease the pain and inflammation with its warmness. Repeat this as often as possible until you get relief from the inflammation in your nasal passage.
3. Blowing your nose repeatedly when your suffering from stuffy nose will make the situation worse as there is nothing to expel it and more inflammation on the inside membranes of your nostrils.
4. Have a mint or chew a real mint chewing gum which helps to prevent the congestion. Regularly take the mint supplement like peppermint tea, etc. which helps to thin the mucus and open up the nasal passages.
5. Get an additional pillow which is soft / firm while sleeping to elevate your head for a comfortable sleep in an upright position.
6. Take a kerchief and add few drops of peppermint oil or eucalyptus oil or a teaspoon of crushed carom seeds powder and tie it. Place this near your pillow to inhale the smell for relief from congested nose and discomfort breathe.
7. Regularly have a hot herbal tea which helps to thin your mucus and also flushes out the toxins inside your body so have it for complete relief from the nasal congestion.
8. Avoid swimming in chlorinated pools as the chlorine in the pool water will irritate the mucous membranes in your nasal passages.

These home remedies and tips will helps a lot in curing your Stuffy nose but in case if you are suffering with severe stuffy nose for more than a week then you are in a situation that more severe than allergies or flu or sinus and immediately make an appointment to consult the doctor for medication and treatment.

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