Navage Starter Bundle - Nasal Irrigation System - Saline Nasal Rinse Kit with 1 Navage Nose Cleaner and 30 Salt Pods

This is an item that helps with relieving my symptoms for my allergies. It is constructed well and the instructions are clear and precise. It does work and helps with relief.

I was sceptical about whether this would be better than a netty pot. I will confirm it is better. First of all it is so much faster and feels like it goes through your whole sinuses. It is expensive and it took me a while to finally buy it. I am glad I did as it seems to be working better. Also is sucks and shoots water so you have a little residual water in there but nothing like the netty pot. Buy it!

Worth every penny. Keeps my allergies at bay. So easy to use and feels wonderful to keep all that gunk out of my sinuses

I got this as an alternative to ther Neil Med. I am much more satisfied withis the Navage. The only draw back is the need to use the Navage slat pods.

Update - 3-5-2017The manufacturer responded -- yea!! -- so all is forgiven. I hope to get a higher suction unit when they are available. I will post new review at that time.Update - 8/19/2016:Contacted the company to suggest/request in next version the ability to control the strength of suction. Because of deviated septum, one side gets "trickle" of solution going through, the other side okay. I still use this, and if (when) I get another head cold I will definitely use it to "vacuum" out the mucous. For me, without a bit more suction, it is not as useful. I am most disappointed that I did not receive a reply from the company about my inquiry. Sigh. I guess once the sale is made . . ..Original Review (unchanged):At first I wasn't sold on this device. Once I found a way to use it without plugging up my hearing, it was just okay, but I didn't really notice that much difference.Then I got a BAD rhinovirus. My sinuses were so clogged and my head felt so stuffy, I fully expected to see brain matter expelled when I blew my nose for at least a half hour at a time.The effectiveness of the Navage was a surprise. If you don't want to be grossed out, stop reading know. Just know that it really cleared my sinuses.First, my method of use is to run it for several seconds and when I feel the build up of too much pressure, I pull it out of my nares and a significant amount of fluid rushes out both sides of my nasal passages. Obviously, I lean over the sink during use. Then I repeat the process two to four times. I have a severely deviated septum which I have been told cannot be surgically repaired because of its location -- which is why the fluid during use builds up until I remove the nasal horns.Now, the gross part. The first time I removed the Navage and expected saline solution, I expelled a huge amount of histamine-colored (yellow) mucous. Each time, more and more came out. I could actually breathe in air on both sides of my nostrils, which hasn't happened in years. It would have taken an hour to blow all that goo out of my sinuses, plus use up a box of tissues.I made sure to use it just before going to sleep, and it helped make it easier to fall asleep -- instead of feeling like I had 20 pounds of gook in my head.My technique of "nasal interruptus" is not described in the literature or on the web site. I found it through trial and error. Know that this device takes some practice to find a way it will work for each person.Being able to wash the sinuses by using saline with suction is so much better than other methods. I know. I'm old. I've tried them all. Highly recommended.

After recovering from sinus surgery, my doctor prescribed something to combine along with a nasal irrigator, which, let's face it, is an unpleasant process no matter how delicately one tries, so the promise of a machine that makes it not only tidy, but as simple as a single button? Things that are too good to be true are, and if I'm lying may my nose grow.But no, my nose is what it is, and that's one (of many) issues with this device. From a merely anatomical perspective, the makers of the device assume everyone has the same nose. Why else would they not include any additional nose tips? Why would they not at least make them adjustable? These are too big, too far apart, too rigid, and not angled enough. I could tilt my whole head to kind of get it to work, but the top of the unit is not watertight, so the precious (and expensive) pod-anointed water just spills everywhere. The suction does work, but only from specific angles. The jet of anointed-water works, but again only from specific angles. Sadly the geometry of these two angles do not align, so either one side either sucks, or one side blows. There's never a smooth and uniform circulation, flow, never a lazy-river nor white-water-rapids, it was just squirt-squirt, glug-glug. With the rest on myself, or the counter, or a passing cat who should know better than to poke its nose into such things.Speaking of pokes, the lets-make-life-easy-by-making-one-button design promised easy of use, but in practicality, its so weirdly placed, not right enough but not wrong enough, that it just feels awkward in the hand and awkward to press, which in itself requires more effort than expected, and to maintain said pressure, at said odd angle, whilst holding ones head at an even odder angle, while spilling oddly anointed fluid over anything and everything that isn't a sinus, which is the one thing I was oddly aiming for.The entire device feels over-engineered. It has lots of plasticky bits. Little bits and bobs. Nose greebles. It looks cool, very sci-fi, but it also feels like there's so much that can go wrong when something as simple as a nose-vacuum needs so many parts, parts that rattle, jiggle, add unnecessary weight, and probably add unnecessary cost, parts that probably exist solely to lock you into some exclusive nose-keurig pods, for the device will do utterly nothing without that magic pod, that giver of salty liquid.And with something as inherently gross as nose-stuffings, the entire process for sanitizing the thing feels like a brutal chore. It would be nice if the device could be broken down, the parts cleaned individually, dishwashered, microwaved, steamed, exposed-to-full-moon, whatever it takes, but currently the whole thing is under lock and plastic-key, so the best you can do is run vinegar and soap through it which will absolutely most-certainly never come back to haunt you the very next time you try to use it.I began this quest because the off-the-shelf drugstore squeeze-bottle nasal-irrigator seemed cheap, low-tech, and simplistic. Now that I've seen this nose-emperor has no clothes, the squeeze bottle seems like a sudden king.

I love these machines. This is the second one I purchased. Cleans out your nasal passages effortlessly. Easy to use and clean up.

I used a netty pot and it did ok. I will be cleaning my sinuses for the rest of my life. Easy to use. Helps stop sinus infections, and the bad sneezing fit problems. You'll find you sneeze less. No clogged sinuses. Breathing is easier and save on facial tissues, too!!!!It was a little hard to get used to. Now, fast and sneeze free most days.