sinusitis
- Overview
- Introduction
- Symptoms
- Causes
- Complications
- Homoeopathic Treatment
- Do's and Don'ts
- Diet and Nutrition
Do you wake up in the morning sneezing your head off?
Are you fed up of that constant headache?
Is your nose blocked for most of the days and nights?
Do you keep clearing your throat all the time?
If YES is the answer for all the questions, then you may be suffering from Sinusitis.
WHAT IS SINUSITIS?
Sinusitis is the inflammation of the mucous membrane that lines the paranasal sinuses.
Almost 15% of people across the USA and close to 12-15% of the people globally suffer from Sinusitis. Click to read Causes of Sinusitis.
What happens in Sinusitis?
- Dull aching pain over affected sinuses
- Nasal congestion
- Nasal blockage
- Difficulty in breathing
What can Sinusitis lead to?
If not treated, Sinusitis can complicate into:
- Bronchial Asthma: A chronic disease characterized by breathlessness, wheezing and cough
- Meningitis: Inflammation of the meninges (protective membranes) of the brain.
- Orbital Cellulitis: Infection of the skin around the eyes.
How well homeopathy works in Sinusitis?
- Homeopathy has more than 100 preventive and curative medicines in treatment for Sinusitis that work very well for persons of all ages and across many diversities.
- Every remedy is carefully prescribed on the basis of the patient's history and the correct medicine can even prevent spread of infections in homeopathic treatment for Sinusitis.
- All these remedies have been proved clinically on thousands of patients globally in more than 120 countries.
Few of our amazing remedies include:
- Silicea: It is very effective in treating sinusitis in individuals who are extremely sensitive to the least amount of chill in the air and often develop frontal headaches or heaviness during the attack.
- Kali Bichromicum: It is helpful in cases where the discharges are very stringy, sticky and yellowish green or when the patient complains of a constant pain in the root of the nose and sinuses are very, very painful.
- Hepar Sulphuris: It is one of the best homeopathic medicines for painful purulent sinusitis. Pain is worse by cold and is relieved by warm applications. Sensitive to cold dry wind, with running thick, offensive discharges from the nose.
As the seasons change, many of us fall sick with dry, stuffy nose, cough and headache. In most cases, a diagnosis of Sinusitis is made. It is believed that 90% of patients are more susceptible to develop Sinusitis because of seasonal changes, lingering cold and allergies.
Homeopathy has been successfully used for the treatment of Sinusitis for many years and has clearly proved its efficacy in tons of cases. Homeopathic medicines lead to a significant reduction in the frequency and intensity of Sinusitis, remove the allergy and can often even lead to a total elimination of recurrence.
We have more than 100 medicines for effective and long-lasting treatment of Sinusitis which are safe, gentle in action and have no side effects.
- Facial pain/ headache or dull constant aching pain over the affected sinuses which is worse when you lean forward
- Blocked nose with green or yellow mucus, which can drain down the back of nose into the throat and may cause a sore throat and cough
- Nasal obstruction or congestion, causing difficulty breathing through your nose
- Ear pain/Toothache
- Cough, which may be worse at night
- Sore throat
- Bad breath (halitosis)
- Fatigue or irritability
- Nausea
- Fever
Acute Sinusitis
- Any sinus infection which lasts for a maximum of four weeks can be referred to as acute sinusitis.
- Symptoms of Sinusitis of this type are usually precipitated by an earlier upper respiratory tract infection like cold, flu like illness, allergy or sometimes due to infected tooth.
Chronic Sinusitis
- Chronic sinusitis is a condition in which the cavities around nasal passages (sinuses) become inflamed and swollen, lasting for more eight weeks, despite proper treatment.
- Symptoms of Sinusitis of this type affect young and middle-aged adults, but they can also affect children.
Location of the pain will depend on the affected sinus:
Classification
It is classified chronologically into based on the duration of complaints:
- Acute rhinosinusitis- Infections that may last upto 4 weeks or less.
- Recurrent acute rhinosinusitis - Four or more separate episodes of acute sinusitis that occur within one year
- Subacute rhinosinusitis- An infection that lasts between 4 and 12 weeks, and represents a transition between acute and chronic infection
- Chronic rhinosinusitis- When the signs and symptoms last for more than 12 weeks
- Acute exacerbation of chronic rhinosinusitis - When the signs and symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis exacerbate, but return to baseline after treatment
There can be a number of causes of Sinusitis. Mainly it is triggered by:
- Viral infections- Most cases of acute sinusitis follow a viral upper respiratory infection caused by common cold viruses such as Rhinovirus, Enterovirius, Coxsackie virus. These are main causes of Sinusitis.
- Bacterial infections- It is commonly associated with bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus. In such conditions bacteria tend to grow and multiply giving rise to yellowish or greenish discharge from the nose. Bacterial infection is one of the chief causes of Sinusitis.
- Fungi: In cases where immunity of the patient has been compromised (such as in HIV, ongoing chemotherapy, etc.), fungi try to grow in the sinus secretions.
Other factors and causes of Sinusitis include:
If this condition is not treated in the early stages, it may lead to the following complications of Sinusitis:
- Asthma- Sometimes sinusitis can trigger inflammatory diseases of airway with wheezing, shortness of breath and productive cough.
- Meningitis- When infection spreads to the lining of the brain, it leads to meningitis with severe headache, neck rigidity and intolerance to light.
- Orbital Cellulitis- It is an acute bacterial infection of the eye from the adjacent sinuses. There is difficulty in movement of the eyes with disturbance in vision.
- Homoeopathic treatment for Sinusitis is very effective in relieving acute as well as chronic Sinusitis. Homoeopathic treatment for Sinusitis can be a boon for all those who are more prone to problems in the winters and often develop respiratory ailments due to sensitivity to cold and allergy.
- Homeopathic treatment for Sinusitis is safe and effective for both children and adults. In treating sinusitis, Homeopathy aims at strengthening the patient's constitution and eradicating the underlying conditions such as sensitivity to cold air and nasal allergies.
- Also, homeopathic treatment for Sinusitis helps in drainage of mucus, relieving sinus congestion, reduces inflammation in the sinuses and relieves pain and pressure by clearing the infection.
- Constitutional homeopathic treatment for Sinusitis can stop the chronicity of complaints and prevent relapse of the disease. Homeopathic treatment for Sinusitis improves the vitality of the patient and eliminates the entire allergic predisposition hence impeding recurrent infections. Through its constitutional and anti-miasmatic treatment, it can drastically eradicate the underlying etiology permanently.
- Thus timely and appropriately administered remedies in homeopathic treatment for Sinusitis help to avoid surgery and its inherent complications. Some of them are:
- Silicea: It is very effective in homeopathic treatment for Sinusitis in individuals who are extremely sensitive to the least amount of chill in the air and often develop frontal headaches or heaviness during the attack.
- Kali Bichromicum: It is helpful in cases where the discharges are very stringy, sticky and yellowish green or when the patient complains of a constant pain in the root of the nose in homeopathic treatment for Sinusitis.
- Hepar Sulphuris: It is one of the best homeopathic medicines for painful purulent sinusitis. Pain is worse by cold and is relieved by warm applications. Sensitive to cold dry wind, with running thick, offensive discharges from the nose.
More than 100 remedies work effectively in homeopathic treatment for Sinusitis, some of them being:
NOSE, Extending, to Frontal sinuses: 2Ars, 1Berb, 1Bry, 2Calc, 2Cupr, 1Ferr, 1Hep, 2Hydr, 3Kali-bi, 2Kali-chl, 2Kali-i, 1Kali-m, 3Lyc, 1Med, 3Merc, 1Merc-i-f, 2Nat-m, 1Nat-s, 2Nux-v, 2Puls, 2Sang, 3Sil, 1Stict, 3Thuj, 1Verb
The remedy abbreviations with
- 4 marks- most effective,
- 3 marks- quite effective,
- 2 marks- less effective,
- 1 mark- least effective.
Do’s
- Steam inhalations should be taken if possible to relieve nasal congestion.
- Drink plenty of fluids.
- A handkerchief should be used when sneezing. Wash your hands frequently as cold viruses often survive for hours in the open such as doorknobs, pens & other surfaces
- Undertake moderate exercise to strengthen the immune system thus preventing cold & other infections.
Don’ts
- Avoid smoking and avoid other environmental pollution if possible. Avoid swimming at unknown places where chances of contamination are more.
- Cold food & cold drinks and foods which have preservatives & are artificially coloured & flavored should be avoided
- Refrain from air travel during upper respiration infection.
- Avoid contact with people who have cold or at least avoid sharing their towels, silverware & beverages with others.
- Eating foods rich in vitamin C, like grapefruit, oranges, and tangerines help to clear congestion
- Add chili peppers, ginger, garlic to daily recipes as these foods contain agents that break mucus and relieve congestion.
- Eat pineapple as it contains bromelain, which helps in reducing the inflammation in the nasal passages
- Boil a mixture of Bishop's weed (Ajwain), tea leaves and water and inhale it to decongest the nose block due to cold.
- Immunity can be increased by drinking boiled mixture of "cup water, little ginger, 2-3 leaves of sweet basil (tulsi) and mint leaves".