Environment: causes of sinusitis

In recent years, along with the progress of urbanization and the concentration of smoke and dust from the industrial, vehicle traffic from everywhere ... saw dust caused the patient to visit a specialist in ear nose throat for a day sinusitis outnumbered.

The leading cause is environmental pollution.

Among the external causes lead to sinusitis, the most common is the air pollution in large urban areas, industrial areas ... Environmental plants do not clean the sinus allergies, or multiple infections. Next to the exposure, such as swimming in the pool with the water quality is not guaranteed, people with underlying health of the bulkhead or atopic allergies when exposed to dirty water regularly will also cause sinusitis.

Multiple infections from the cold wave is also an external cause. When you have the flu, causing runny nose, combined with dirty air, dust and germs, from rhinitis, sinusitis will be moved to follow the natural path for review of anatomy, nasal and sinus connecting with vents .

Some common underlying cause of sinusitis is caused by tooth decay; sinusitis due to injury, hematoma in the sinuses; in children can be caused by inflammation amydales infection ... There are also natural causes such as persons with atopic diseases of polyps, mucosal degeneration blocks forming polyps (benign tumors) in the nose, in sinuses, leading to sinus infections due to polyps.

About time, sinusitis divided into two types: acute and chronic. Acute sinusitis is usually caused by viruses initially, then multiple infections, if treated properly can be healed in 1-2 weeks. Chronic sinusitis is often further complicated by recurrent, difficult to cure. The cause is usually based allergies, environmental pollution, climate change temperature. A very common case is that the patient work in air-conditioned rooms, nose to regulate the cold air, walked out, it's hot, nose to regulate, causing allergic conditions persist.

Symptoms and treatment

To distinguish between a runny nose, nasal congestion when the common cold due to nasal sinus condition, we found a number of factors: if only a cold, but many patients runny nose, often in other countries sinusitis, nasal discharge patient characteristics, symptoms included headache, runny nose, sinus headache one or both sides, and maxillary sinus headache sinus most vulnerable ready, and frontal sinuses and sinus headaches when butterflies will often prolonged illness, heavy feeling in the nose, sometimes hard to hear ...

Both acute and chronic sinusitis can count mild or severe, depending on the course of disease. In mild cases, just taking anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, accompanied by nasal spray used to thin mucus, clean the nose, nasal ventilation helps. If severe, the symptoms occur frequently ... need to see a specialist ENT to rinse your sinuses, or if need be laparoscopy to remove the pus no effective treatment.

Improper treatment methods and timely sinusitis can lead to serious complications such as meningitis, inflammatory tissue around the face, sinus thrombophlebitis cave, can blind ...