I wonder if she'd just had rhinoplasty. A friend of mine is in recovery from that; she has to do this kind of sinus irrigation thing twice a day.
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This was also literally the plot of an episode of House.
Dunno why the downvote, the episode in question was 8.17, titled "We Need The Eggs". The patient developed a brain-eating amoeba infection by using tap water in a neti pot.
Stop cleaning your sinuses in general, your body creates that mucus for a reason.