Sinus rinse after surgery - terrified I'm doing it wrong!

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I had FESS and polypectomy on Friday afternoon.

Yesterday I had to start using the NeilMed sinus rinse thing.

I held my finger on the kettle for two minutes, to ensure it was boiled for long enough. I had washed and microwaved the NeilMed bottle to sterilise it.

Today I boiled more water and put it in a clean water bottle to cool. I then tried to sterilise the NeilMed bottle in the microwave, but accidentally left it too long/left it wet on the outside and it melted. Luckily I had another.

I got worried about the boiled water being left out too long, so after doing the rinse, used the boiled water to clean the NeilMed bottle. I've left it to dry on kitchen towel, with kitchen towel covering it.

I put the water bottle, with the freshly boiled water (let it cool for 45mins - 1 hour), in the fridge to use tonight.

Now I'm panicking. I'm panicking whether the water would have more germs in for leaving it to cool before putting in the fridge, panicking about the NeilMed bottle being washed and not sterilised.

I worry that the pain is worse because I did something wrong and have given myself an infection. Most things online say to use distilled water, but the ones I see say they are for irons, etc. I don't think I would trust it more than boiled water.

Everywhere keeps on about this brain eating amoeba.

Anyone?

This sounds very stressful OP. I'm not very knowledgeable about the methods you're using but when I had nose surgery a few years ago (septoplasty) I was advised to use the sterimar nasil sprays. I went through a fair few bottles, it was a very expensive thing to do but it was very easy and simple. Is there not an easier option like the sprays you could ask your Dr about using.

I think you are worrying too much. Ive been using these sinus rinses for around 6 years now and after 2 FESS procedures. I boil the kettle earlier in the day, when cool pour some of this water in a cup. Boil kettle and pour in the bottle to half fill. Put the lid in another cup and pour boiled water over that. Then pour the cooled boiled water in the bottle. Pour in the sachet and put the lid back on. Leave to cool for a minute or so and then use.

This helps recovery. If you dont want to do this use
the sprays, although they didn't really do much for me.

I hope you recover well

I do this most days. I boil water from the filter jug, let it cool a bit then use it to rinse the bottle and top, then let it cool more before filling the bottle then let cool to usable temperature. After use I rinse again with boiled water. I'd never use tapwater for this.