Before getting to know what are chronic sinusitis symptoms, and how to treat it so that you can get rid it forever, let me start by introducing what is sinus.
Sinuses are actually the air-filled spaces located behind the bones of your face, which is lined with your nose.
The mucous membrane in your sinuses is very effective in preventing dirt particles and viral/bacterial infection as their job is to keep your nasal passageways moist and clear.
When the passage is blocked, the chance of viral/bacterial infection will be very high and might causes sinusitis.
Sinus infection caused by bacterial infection will cause inflammation to your sinuses and nasal passages.
Sinusitis infection can be acute (slightly serious than common cold, which normally will cure within 2 weeks), sub acute (normally will get rid in 4 to 6 weeks with help of antibiotics) and chronic (going on for 8 weeks or more, and currently doesn't have 100% solution to it).
All these sinusitis have similar symptoms, and are quite difficult to distinguish among each other beside by their infection period.
Statistic shown that there are at least 90% of adult have had sinusitis at least once in their life.
The common symptoms of sinus infection include a) Nasal congestion that will affect our breath, and might cause embarrassing sound when we breath as thick green or yellow mucous exist in our nasal passage b) Facial pain as the pressure in our nose has increased, due to the blockage of sinus passage which is caused by bacterial infection.
This will affect the pressure balance between our face and sinus.
c) Serious coughing, especially during nighttime, as the atmosphere temperature drop.
It will affect our sleep and hence affect our work efficiency in the morning as we didn't get enough rest.
d) Loss of sense of smell, due to the blockage of our sinus passage.
Sometimes we will get aching teeth too, but this doesn't happen often.
There are a lot of chronic sinusitis treatment available, and can be categorized into 3 main types, namely medicine, surgery and self help.
Nasal sprays, antihistamine tablets and antibiotics are the most common medicine for sinusitis.
Nasal spray can relieve your suffering, but doesn't help in curing sinus infection.
If you have both chronic sinusitis and allergy at the same time, antihistamine is useful in controlling allergy and hence helps to reduce the symptoms of chronic sinusitis.
Antibiotics can only cure bacterial infected sinusitis, which doesn't help in chronic sinusitis infection.
Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is the most common surgery available, which surgeon will clear the sinus passage and widen the drainage holes.
Such kind of surgery will cost a lot, and doesn't guarantee that it will cure sinus infection forever.
Both medicine and surgery treatment will cause side effect like headache, infection post to open sinus surgery etc.
In my opinion, self help sinus home remedies will be the best way, as it doesn't cost much and most importantly it doesn't have any side effects.
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