How to Blow Your Nose

Series Summary

A healthy body should be a top priority is everyone's life, no matter your age or physical state. Keeping healthy means exercising, eating right and monitoring health with yearly physicals and through home health monitors. Avoiding unhealthy habits, such as smoking or eating poorly, can improve general health and long-term health issues. Home remedies and basic health knowledge also play roles in keeping a family free from too many trips to the hospital or doctor's office, high medical bills and repeated accidents. In this free video series on family health facts and home remedies, a licensed nurse explains a variety of general health information. Learn some fast tips for getting rid of a cold, reducing a fever quickly, stopping bleeding, blowing your nose, helping a constipated child and more. Viewers get real health facts from a nurse about easing a cough, curing dry eyes and upset stomachs, preventing urinary tract infections and other general health questions many people have.

Video Transcript

"Hi, it sounds like you've got the sniffles or maybe just a plugged nose or just need help with blowing your nose. I'm Dan Carlson and an LPN and I'm going to walk you through this. First we'll need a tissue. Use a regular tissue not any cotton tissues as they can harbor infectious diseases and what not. And we'll start off with the proper way. So take the tissue, close one nostril like so and blow gently through the other nostril. Once you've done that nostril, repeat the process for the other nostril. And once you get done with that, make sure to throw the tissue away and wash your hands with warm water and soap. So to recap, what we're going to be doing is closing one nostril, blowing gently through, closing the other nostril, blowing gently through and always remember to wash your hands. It's cold season and you don't want to spread those germs to anyone else. I'm Dan Carlson, thank you."