NASAL DOUCHE DEVICE Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device intensifies washing out of the nasal cavity. It has medicinal liquid irrigator, olive-shaped hollow chamber with central branch pipe, hose, gas-(air-) supply appliance. The new is that the hollow chamber in the central pipe zone has tangential pipe for joining up the gas-supply appliance and part of the central pipe is located in the hollow chamber internal volume. The washing out procedure is as follows. The patient sits down on a chair, moves his head slightly forward and bends it over a sink. He puts the hollow chamber into his nostril and supplies the medicinal liquid with simultaneous gas supply to the hollow chamber through the tangential pipe. Medicinal liquid foaming is performed. The gas-liquid system passes through both nasal cavities and the rhinopharynx. EFFECT: highly efficient cleaning of the nasal cavity. 4 dwg