It refers to cavity that may contain suppurative fluid, blood or just air like in case of those in our skull.
In day to day life a doctor will come across atleast 5 patients or persons complaining to have a sinus problem...
Normally there are air cavities in the skull of us to reduce the weight of our comparitively large head resting on small joints of the cervical vertebrae.
There is also a blood filled cavities in our cranial cavity besides brain like cavernous sinus,superior saggital, sigmoid ....
But the commonly referred by the patient is the sinuses in the skull.
Most unbearable pain is the headache which is the common complaint of the patients sinusitis...To be honest I m a victim of it... It is the inflammation of the mucosa lining the cavity .. It is not so bad that it shouldnt get inflammed, it is recurrent beyond recovery that causes the disease.
Pollution is a most important cause.
But my opinion is that we cant blame other factors inspite of we ourselves helping the disease to occur..Yes ..just think of the life style .. we are becoming more and more sedentary so we breathe partially only i m the force respiration.. To make it more clear these sinus lined by mucosa secretes mucus,that is cleared by the ciliary action but this action has to be helped by respiration... this brought about by the negative force created in the nasal cavity during inspiration that creates a suction force and during expiration the air is flushed in to these cavities thus helping in the clearing of the secretion mainly in the maxillary sinus in which the clearing should occur against gravity. It is easily flooded with secretions causing a focus for micro organisms that will further augment inflammation and destruction of the cilia which creates vicious cycle...
The symptoms of sinusitis is Headache,nasal puffiness,fever ,rhinorrhoea..
The treatment include anti histaminics to reduce secretion, NSAIDs to give symptomic relief .. Acut conditions mostly requires addition of antibiotics...
In chronic conditions surgery (FESS- Functional endoscopic sinus surgery) is needed. this is done to improve the drainage of the sinus
In day to day life a doctor will come across atleast 5 patients or persons complaining to have a sinus problem...
Normally there are air cavities in the skull of us to reduce the weight of our comparitively large head resting on small joints of the cervical vertebrae.
There is also a blood filled cavities in our cranial cavity besides brain like cavernous sinus,superior saggital, sigmoid ....
But the commonly referred by the patient is the sinuses in the skull.
Pollution is a most important cause.
The symptoms of sinusitis is Headache,nasal puffiness,fever ,rhinorrhoea..
The treatment include anti histaminics to reduce secretion, NSAIDs to give symptomic relief .. Acut conditions mostly requires addition of antibiotics...
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