It is estimated that we spend about a year of life fighting the common cold and sinusitis. These troubles take place according to one scenario. You carry a cold on your feet, hoping that everything will pass in a week. But the calculation of spontaneous cure is not justified. In the spring, when the defenses of the body are weakened, inflammatory processes in the nasopharynx have the property of lingering for a long time, spreading into the paranasal sinuses and passing into a chronic form.
If the cold is not over in a week, you can suspect sinusitis. Its main feature: the nose is terribly laid , and you feel like the sinuses like bursting from the inside. A day or two later, the nose begins to flow more and more "thick". This means that a bacterial infection has joined the bacterial infection and it is necessary to drink antibiotics, but not to your own taste, but those that the doctor will recommend. Take them a long time - 2-3 weeks, because the infection nests deep.
Drink more!
In a healthy person, 0.5 l of nasal mucus is produced per day, and with sinusitis much more - up to 2.5 l. For the body this is a tangible loss of fluid and salts. Fill it with freshly squeezed juices and herbal teas. Daily for the treatment of folk remedies of sinusitis, take as a medicine a glass of fresh grapefruit, orange or pomegranate juice, half diluted with warm boiled water, and a glass of wild rose hips with mint or chamomile.
Hospital subscription from the pool
Sinusitis, which did not pass for 3 weeks, doctors consider prolonged, and lasting more than 3 months - chronic. The inflammatory process refuses to retreat for a reason - for this, there is certainly an excuse. For example, the curvature of the nasal septum or allergic rhinitis. It is possible that the body is weakened by spring avitaminosis or diets and that is why it is so sluggish, resists infection.
And tonsils should be checked with sinusitis! In chronic tonsillitis, microbes get into the sinuses along the bloodstream. Do not forget the sick teeth! Pay close attention to the condition of the canines and the radical ones - they, which are carious, are a threat. Well, if you regularly visit the pool, you know: the water that gets into your nose can also support inflammation.
Do not be tempted to sniff, pulling its contents into the nasopharynx. In this case, the viruses will intensify the symptoms of intoxication. Always blow your nose before anything drips into your nose.
Warm Ratio
Relieving pain in the inflamed sinus in the treatment of traditional sinusitis helps dry heat. You can attach to this place a bag of warm salt or sand, a hard-boiled egg or a woolen scarf. Thermal procedures in themselves are not a panacea. They only reduce pain, but do not eliminate its cause.
To discomfort with sinusitis disappeared, it is necessary to remove the stuffy nose and improve the outflow of contents from the sinuses.
Use the drops. In the first 5 or 6 days - vasoconstrictor, which removes the mucosal edema (it is better to use those that have a prolonged action). True, with long and frequent application, they stop working and even strengthen the stuffiness of the nose. Have noticed such effect - pass to liquids of antiseptic and dampening action: 1-2% solutions of silver nitrate or eye drops.
Good help in such cases, cough remedies - herbal infusions of expectorant action (root of sage and licorice, leaves of mother-and-stepmother), as well as therapeutic lollipops. These funds not only bring relief to three bronchitis, but also improve the condition in the common cold and sinusitis.
To warm the sinuses from the inside with a steam of medicinal infusions and solutions with anti-inflammatory and antibacterial action, modern tribraids-compressor and ultrasonic inhalers-nebulizers help. You do not have to conduct a useful procedure in the old fashioned way, having covered yourself with a towel over a saucepan with boiling water or boiled potatoes. By the way, if you decided to treat this way, then do it right: draw in the air with your nose, and exhale through your mouth. Then useful substances will fall into the paranasal sinuses.