Treatment of Sinusita

According to the data of hospital statistics, 15-36% of patients received in the ENT branch, sinusitis is detected. Those who are treated in the clinic outpatient, this diagnosis is still more. And, most patients do not even suspect that they have a sinusitis. What is the alert? Today, our site will tell about the causes of its occurrence, symptoms, types, methods of treatment.

Overview of the disease

If a person is inflated by one or several apparent nasal sinuses, then it is sinusitis. On the Latin sinus and means «Sinus». This ailments arises as a complication of other diseases: acute runny nose (rhinitis), influenza, scarletins, measles and other infections. In general, sinus are called small cavities, located in the thick of the bones of the human skull. And how many such rally sinuses with us? 2 frontal - it is immediately clear that they deepened in the thickness of the frontal bone. 2 lattice, that is, they are formed by the cells of our lattice bone, which is in the base of the nose. Two topless sinuses are found in the maxillary bone. And one more sinus is on the basis of the cranial box, it is located in a wedge-shaped bone. All otolonic sinuses are lifted with thin mucous membrane. All of them communicate through small holes with a nasal cavity. And if suddenly the channel connecting the sinus and the nasal cavity closes, and it happens during the runny nose when the nasal mucosa is stretching, then there is a quick absorption of air from the hermetic sinus into the blood. The sinus at this moment is filled with inflammatory liquid, pathogenic bacteria are very active in it.

For what the sinuses are provided in our organism?

1. They are involved in the formation of the facial skeleton and certain features.
2. Warm air passing on the nasal move.
3. Detter voice depends on them.

The mucous membrane of the sinuses (sinuses) is very easily subjected to infections and inflammation, like the nasal mucosa.

Causes of sinusita

First, everything starts with common signs that appear during a cold: weakness, malaise, a breaking, heat. And then list the symptoms characteristic precisely for acutely occurring sinusitis:

• constant nasal congestion (sometimes it is manifested only on the one hand);
• Abundant discharge of a nose mucus that acquires a yellow or greenish color because of the pus;
• Blood is often found in this mucus;
• Weakening or full loss of smell;
• Votability in voice;
• Redness of the skin area located above the inflamed sinus;
• At night you are worried about cough;
• Headache in the field of patterns, forehead or face.

For frontititis, pain relief is characteristic of the bridge, for etmoiditis - in the area of ​​the nose and in the back of the eyes; for sinusitis - in the area of ​​the cheek. When sphenoid, pain in the occipital or dark areas.

In chronic flow, the symptoms are less pronounced, but they are manifested longer, they disappear, they appear again. Such patients constantly torment the nasal congestion, difficult nose breathing, head pain or facial, purulent discharge from nasal moves. Such people often pick out colds.

The diagnosis puts the ENT doctor based on the inspection of the mucous membranes of the nose and the X-ray radiography data, it is she who will show darkened those areas near the nose, which are inflamed. In computed tomography, it is also possible to identify the disease.

How to treat sinusit?

Treatment has several directions:

1. It is necessary to eliminate the infection, this is done using antibacterial agents. If required, then connected Antibiotics or antifungal drugs.
2. Normalization of drainage and ventilation of the incomplete sinuses.
3. Symptomatic therapy facilitating the patient's condition. For this, universal, immunostimulating agents are used.
4. Physiotherapy.

Many antibiotics also show unwanted actions, so qualified oto-oleryngologists have recently been fully prescribed vegetable drug «Sinaphort». It contains a cyclame extract that has a local immunostimulating effect, launches the natural process of cleansing the hymorous sinuses, nasal moves from the stagnant mucus and pus. Before use, the preparation is dissolved in the attached solvent. Medicine spray in nasal strokes in a vertical position. Enough one procedure per day. After a few minutes, the intensive separation of mucus from the nose will begin. The course is about 8 days. Take care of your eyes from entering them the drug, otherwise there is strong irritation.

Here are another number of recommendations:

1. With exacerbations of sinusitis and colds, try to avoid cold air, a few days stay at home.
2. The benefit will bring warm drinks, for example, herbs - linden, melissa, rosehip, mint, rowan, ginger. At night, apply to the feet of mustard pieces and put on warm socks. Make inhalations with essential oils like spruce, pine, fir, eucalyptus, sage, geranium.
3. Permissible if necessary, apply anti-inflammatory, antipyretic drugs.
4. To remove the ethony, breathing relief can be dripped by vasoconstrictor drops (Sanorin, Galazoline, Nazivin). MS warns that you can use no more than a week
5. Antibiotics doctors prefer cephalexin, cefotaxim, zefixim, amoxicillin, azithromycin, clarithromycin.
6. As a local antibiotic, good results give the irrigation of the mucous membrane of the nose. Spray bioparox.
7. In allergic sinusitis, telfast or claritine.
8. If the desired effect is not achieved in the treatment, then resort to surgical methods. ENT pierces the inflated separation sinuses, drains them, removes pathologically crushed mucous cloth. Endoscopic techniques are being implemented now, allowing surgical interference with the most gentle.

At the very first signs of sinusitis, our site recommends that your readers contact a doctor. Extremely undesirable to have in the head, near the brain, foci of infection. If the sinusitis is wrong, it can go into a chronic form with frequent relapses (repetitions), which is difficult and is long been treated.