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Analysis v1
Strong Support
Breathing in wood dust can irritate and cause cancer in your nose, and it gets stuck there because it stops your nose from cleaning itself out. So, washing your nose out with water (nasal lavage) makes sense to get rid of the dust.
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Acceptance and effects of nasal lavage in volunteer woodworkers.
Cross-Sectional Study
Human
1999 AugThe study tested washing the nose with saltwater in woodworkers and found it reduced stuffiness and irritation, just like the claim said it would, so it supports the idea that this is a good way to clean out wood dust.
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