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TREATMENT OF CHRONIC SINUSITIS
Your sinuses are cavities containing air in
the bones of your head. They make your head lighter. If the bones in your
head were solid, your head would weigh more than 50 pounds, your neck
would not be able to hold it up or turn it, and the human race would never
have survived in competition with other animals. The problem with having
sinuses is that the air in a sinus cavity must always have the same air
pressure as the air outside, so all sinuses must have passageways to the
outside that allow the pressure inside a sinus to be equal to the outside
pressure.
If the barometric pressure drops suddenly, as it does often before a
storm, and your sinus passageway is blocked, the higher pressure in the
sinus will press on the bones surrounding it to cause a horrible headache.
When your nose is stuffy, the inner linings of your nose are swollen, and
the same swelling can shut the sinus passageway, preventing air pressure
inside your sinus from changing to balance the pressure outside, and you
can develop a sinus headache.
If your nose is stuffy most of the time and your mucous is clear, you
could have an allergy, an irritation from smoking or air pollution or from
some unknown cause. If thick yellow-green mucous drips from your nose, you
probably have a sinus infection. Your doctor should order a sinus cat scan
X ray. If the X ray shows that you have fluid levels in your sinuses, you
have sinusitis.
Nobody really knows how to treat sinusitis. Allergy injections are
almost always a complete waste of time, unless you get a stuffy nose every
spring and fall when the tree, grass and ragweed pollen are in the air.
People who have a chronic stuffy noses all year round rarely benefit from
allergy shots. Sinus surgery usually is ineffective and costs a lot on
money and pain for no benefit whatever. A couple of years ago, a study
from the Mayo Clinic showed that people with chronic sinusitis usually
carry fungi in their noses, but multiple efforts to treat sinusitis with
long-term anti-fungal medications have failed.
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