Interesting potentially therapeutic Covid inhibitor/treatment. Share with your doctor.

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Why hasn't this study been used to determine effectiveness against Covid-19 and Omicron?

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Because there is no money in that

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There's no such actual studies this works

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There are. Listen to his interview on Joe Rogan. He cites them.

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I ain't spraying betadine up my nose or gargling with it, either.

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It’s a solution. You can buy it commercially.

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Why hasn't this study been used to determine effectiveness against Covid-19 and Omicron? Covid-19 is caused by SARS-Cov2.

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Only social distancing, mask and vaccines are allowed. No early treatment allowed.

Signed, Government, Medical Establishment, MSM, Big Pharma and Mask Covidians.

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Betadine nasal spray is Dr McCullough’s suggestion


No. There's no such actual studies this works and I ain't spraying betadine up my nose or gargling with it, either.

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I’ve never tried Betadine nasal spray but it you Google betadine nasal spray it seems to be a pretty common nasal spray. I’ve never heard of gargling with betadine?

Has it been compared to saline nasal flushes? Perhaps the benefit is from diluting out the virus with the spray? It is a nasal antihistamine. I used it when I had it, but to help sneezing.

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Has it been compared to saline nasal flushes?

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I wish I could convince everyone to do high-volume nasal/sinus flush/rinse (neti pot, et al).




That said, I usually reach for nasal atrovoent 0.06% for acute illnesses over astelin because it doesn’t leave this weird, bitter-metallic aftertaste, and I’m not totally convinced that nasal antihistamines add a ton of benefit over oral antihistamines which are so easy to come by.

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How often and what solution?

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Most devices you’ll buy will come with a solution (in dry packets) that is something around 2:1 salt:baking soda- these are fine.


Any water you ever put in your nose should be distilled or brought to a rolling boil by you for >2 minutes. Not tap. Not filtered. Not bottled. Not anything other than distilled or boiled (and set to cool, which takes forever to get to a temperature that my nose can tolerate).

Then you pick one of two ways to do it:
Mix roughly 2:1 ratio of salt (the finer ground the better) to baking soda, and drop about 1/2-1 teaspoon per 8oz of water, or just go ahead and drop 8-16tsp in your gallon jug, store in the fridge, and shake well before filling up your vessel.

The mixture isn’t particularly magic. You want it hypertonic (pulls swelling/inflammation out of the tissue) but you don’t want it to burn (the higher the salt content, the more uncomfortable some noses find it). The real “magic” is the volume and rinsing the crap that builds up when you are sick out and get things moving.




When I said I wish “everyone” did this, I realize it may be misconstrued:
1) I wish all my seasonal allergy patients did this. I’ve had people on 1-2 pills and 2-3 nose sprays drop to 0-1 total medicines to keep it under control.
2) I wish most people when they did get a cold would do this- it’s probably as/more effective than most medicines for acute relief of stuffiness. COVID would fall into this category. Is there benefit to “washing off” excess virus in the mucosa? Certainly won’t hurt. Symptomatic relief is pretty wonderful, though, and probably the most difficult thing to treat with COVID is the splitting frontal sinus headache.
There’s no real “maximum” dose to this - I would do it twice a day while sick, more if it helps but the symptoms return.
If using Flonase (buy generic fluticasone from Amazon, Costco (Kirkland, Aller-flo) or Sams for great prices), astelin, or Atrovent, I would rinse and then use the spray more or less immediately after. I find it helps with the distribution of the spray to have a “clean” passage to get into.


But if someone told me that I had one non-antibiotic medication to treat the most nose symptoms, I would choose Atrovent. My partner would choose astelin. Both are good. I often offer both and say “would you rather a nose spray that’s twice a day with a bad taste or three times a day with a not great taste?”
Nothing about astelin should be “virocidal,” if such a thing exists. If it has any meaningful reduction in symptoms, i would postulate that it dries up the snot and irritated membranes that make it easier for virus to enter the mucosa and ruin the more “hospitable” environment for replication, and because of that, I would probably take this approach instead (thus my long explanation about regular allergy symptoms and colds).

What are your thoughts on the Navagw device. I hear that commercial a lot?

Thank you for all your great info. I am one that should have been doing this for years and have been considering it. I am fed up with constant sinus issues and ready to comply. Thank you again.