What to do to prevent sinusitis with a runny nose. How to treat sinusitis at the initial stage

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Winter is on the doorstep... For some it brings cheerfulness and New Year's joy, and for others it brings exacerbation of chronic ailments, including tonsillitis and sinusitis . If they are launched, the health consequences can be very serious. Just one of these cases is recalled today by K.I. Doronina. She also talks about how you can get rid of insidious infections forever.

When medications are intolerable

One day, a friend of mine, a former teacher and already an elderly woman, turned to me for help. Her beloved nephew was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis . The woman did not have her own children, and she was simply in despair. The young man is very handsome and smart. And now - such a disaster!

From the age of 17, the young man suffered from terrible headaches. In addition, endless sore throats and runny nose. chronic sinusitis with allergic reactions was made They did punctures several times and washed out the maxillary sinuses, but lately it has only gotten worse. Headaches tormented me more and more often, and I had a severe allergy . Moreover, after another sore throat, my legs began to fail... What to do in such a situation? First of all treat sore throat and sinusitis to get rid of chronic infection.

Causes of multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis , which was suspected in a young man, is a very serious diagnosis. This disease causes damage to the myelin sheaths of the nerve fibers of the brain and spinal cord. Such lesions lead to impairment of motor and other functions. An autoimmune disease in which special cells are produced that act against the body’s own.

Doctors do not fully know what exactly causes the disease. But there are assumptions. Multiple sclerosis can be caused, for example, by the herpes virus, which destroys the body from the inside. This virus causes shingles and chickenpox, which is especially dangerous if an adult becomes ill. Other risk factors are proctitis and paraproctitis, the same debilitating tonsillitis and sinusitis. Contents from the maxillary sinuses can also enter the frontal sinuses - this is the inflammation of the myelin sheaths. Having studied the examination results, I paid attention to the patient’s palms. They were bright red, and in some places yellow lines appeared. This means there is stagnation of bile in the liver. To begin with, I advised him to drink succinic acid, and then drew up a treatment plan for sore throat and sinusitis.

Advice from an experienced doctor

I remember one two-year-old girl was tormented by terrible sore throats. By the age of 10, she could no longer take any antibiotics. Any drug would cause rashes, even the fingers on my hands would stick together from the festering blisters. Along with a sore throat, a severe skin disease developed. An experienced doctor who no longer worked at the clinic, but many knew her, helped. The mother of a sick girl turned to her, and she advised the following.

Prepare the following composition: 1 tbsp. l. dissolve salt in 200 ml of cold boiled water, add 5 drops of 5% iodine, stir well and gargle 7 times a day until complete recovery.
At night, apply a compress to the throat with kefir.
To prevent infection from harming internal organs, especially the kidneys, you need to drink this kvass. Pour 2 cups of washed millet into a three-liter jar with warm boiled water and put a piece of black bread in it, close the lid and place in a warm place. The next day, drink without restrictions. Do this for at least 5 days.
For frequent sore throats, it is best to clear your throat with purified lamp kerosene. Under no circumstances should you use aviation! A bandage is wrapped around two fingers and moistened with kerosene. Then the tonsils are thoroughly wiped. In this case, it is necessary to remove all rotting food waste from the gaps. Repeat 5-6 times for frequent sore throats. Sometimes one time is enough - the disease does not return.

The girl recovered, and then, as soon as the sore throat came on, the child was treated in this way. And by the age of 15, they completely forgot what kind of disease it was.

Treatment of sinusitis at the initial stage

Treatment of the subacute stage of sinusitis can be carried out both at home and in the hospital.

In most cases, the disease is cured using. Neglecting them often leads to the progression of the disease to a more severe form. After a doctor makes a diagnosis, traditional medicine can be used as an addition to basic medications.

Nasal rinsing

A fairly effective method of treatment at the initial stage is rinsing the sinuses.

This method replaces any pills. Shows high effectiveness when a runny nose lasts for more than two weeks.

For washing you need to prepare a solution:

Add a teaspoon to 1 glass of water.

The medicine must be at the optimal temperature. Before the procedure, it is better to warm up the frontal part.

To do this, you can spend 5 minutes.

draw the resulting solution into a special device or an ordinary syringe;
inject the liquid into one nostril under pressure;
close the nostril, blow your nose;
Repeat the same with the second nostril.

At one time it will be enough to perform the steps 5-6 times.

2 times
per day with an interval of
8 hours.
After such rinsing, the nose must be dripped with drops that are prescribed by a doctor or prepared independently.

Instillation of drops

Juice can be used as nasal drops for illness:

Self-massage

Self-massage can help overcome sinusitis.

To do this, you need the base of the nose, its wings, as well as the temples, the back of the head, and the bridge of the nose. Each point should take 1-2 minutes. This method helps improve blood circulation.

Attention!
It is necessary to carry out treatment at home only after consultation with your doctor.

Potato flowers for rinsing

How else can you get rid of persistent follicular tonsillitis ?

When potatoes bloom , you need to find bushes that bloom with blue flowers. Do not tear off the entire bush, but cut off 1/3 of the flowers, dry on white paper in a dark place where the rays of the sun do not reach. Place in a paper bag and close well. Use to prepare an infusion to gargle.

Pour 4 tsp. flowers with 2 cups of boiling water, add ½ coffee spoon of baking soda and place in a thermos. Leave for 8 hours, then strain. Gargle with infusion 6-8 times a day, regardless of meals.

Within 3 days after rinsing, the temperature usually subsides.

Traditional methods of preventing sinusitis

It is better to know how to avoid inflammation of the maxillary sinuses than to treat such a pathology with serious medications and punctures. Many folk remedies will also help with this, which are easy to prepare at home using inexpensive products:

herbal preparations to strengthen the immune system, for example, with chamomile, St. John's wort, calendula, currant leaves, coltsfoot, plantain, rose hips;
honey and aloe juice are diluted with water and dripped daily for rhinitis;
tincture of chamomile and echinacea flowers for inhalation once a day to prevent colds if one of the relatives at home is sick;
warming the nose with a boiled egg or hot salt, which is heated in a bag.

Read How to determine sinusitis at home

If, nevertheless, the first signs of sinusitis appear (headaches, purulent discharge, swelling and distension in the nose, fever, swelling on the face), then it is important to immediately consult a doctor in order to cure it in the early stages, without starting the disease and without turning the inflammatory process into chronic, which can sometimes be stopped only by surgery.

Melissa and beets for headaches

With tonsillitis, as with low blood pressure, there is often a very severe headache. The fact is that the blood becomes too viscous, moves poorly through the vessels of the brain, and their spasms begin. In such cases, simple remedies sometimes help.

Infusion of lemon balm . In the evening, pour 1 cup of boiling water 1 tsp. lemon balm, add sugar (honey) and leave overnight covered, wrapped in a towel. Strain and drink the entire glass at once. Take this infusion every 9 hours.
A salad of two small beets that fit in two palms. Boil the beets , grate, add 2 cloves of garlic, sour cream and 3 pieces of chopped prunes or dried apricots. Be sure to eat this salad 3 times a day before your main meal for 2 months.

Main and systemic symptoms

With sinusitis accompanied by tonsillitis, the throat often hurts, but the following symptoms are also observed:

increased body temperature;
chills;
in children, sinusitis is accompanied by general weakness and loss of strength; for adults, a symptom such as memory impairment is added;
increased photophobia;
nasal congestion, which is accompanied by partial or complete loss of smell (temporary);
lacrimation;
purulent, mucous discharge;
the appearance of swelling and swelling on the face;
severe pain in the throat, accompanied by hoarseness of the voice;
swallowing becomes difficult;
swelling appears in the neck area.

All these symptoms are accompanied by headaches, which can be severe, paroxysmal, and pressing. They all resemble migraine, which is often the beginning of improper therapy. The absence of obvious signs of rhinitis can lead to the patient not seeing a doctor, but starting to take painkillers himself. This does not eliminate the cause of the disease, but it does help relieve pain for a short time.

The pain in the acute stage is severe, it practically does not stop, and when the patient sits down or lies down in bed, the condition is alleviated. Many people begin to take medications on their own, in particular antibiotics, without consulting a doctor. This not only worsens the situation, but also leads to chronic sinusitis, the development of a toxic-allergic reaction, and the development of chronic inflammation of the tonsils, which requires surgical intervention.

Treatment of symptoms of chronic tonsillitis differs from acute ones, this is due to the fact that a completely different picture of the course of the disease is observed. The general condition worsens with hypothermia, while the picture is the same as with other colds, but is characterized by the appearance of swelling; in children, this condition can develop into chronic adenoiditis, that is, inflammation of the nasopharyngeal tonsil. If proper treatment is not started, there is a risk of developing complications such as lateral pharyngitis, inflammation of the lingual tonsil.

The processes occurring in the body during sinusitis cause pain, which has much in common with migraine:

bursting pain spreading to the lower or upper parts of the orbit, into the frontal sinuses, nasal cavity, while the pain itself can be constant aching or paroxysmal, sharp;
photophobia appears, harsh light worsens the condition, causing unmotivated irritability;
lacrimation appears, which is accompanied by nasal congestion;
severe thirst;
swelling of the face is observed (with sinusitis, such swelling is caused by the accumulation of fluid in the maxillary sinuses).

So that your nose can breathe freely

Headaches are also a consequence of sinusitis, which can also seriously undermine your health. My friend’s nephew was helped by folk recipes.

Mix chestnut flowers with Echinops seeds (30 g each), pour in 0.75 liters of church wine (Cahors), leave for several days and strain. Instill the tincture into both nostrils, 5 drops 2 times a day, half an hour before meals for a week.
For the second week of treatment, make the following solution: crush 2 cloves of garlic, pour 3 tbsp. l. boiled water, add 1 tbsp. l. red beet juice and 1 tsp. topped with honey, preferably May or buckwheat. Mix everything well and leave in a glass jar with a tight lid for 3-4 hours until the honey dissolves. Then strain and drip 5 drops into each nostril. Treat like this for a week.
For the third week, prepare the following potion. Mix thoroughly, taking equal parts, the juices of cyclamen (its washed root vegetable), onions, garlic, aloe or Kalanchoe, as well as honey and peeled birch tar. Close tightly and place in a warm place for 3 hours. Make 2 turundas out of gauze, shake the potion thoroughly 7 times, pour a little into a saucer, wet the turundas and insert into the nostrils for half an hour. Do this morning and evening for another week.
For another 7 days, in the morning and evening, insert turundas soaked in a honey solution into the nose: 1 tbsp. l. honey - 2 tbsp. l. water at room temperature.

The whole vacation is down the drain

ENT doctors note that it is at the end of summer that they often have to make a diagnosis of “sinusitis.”

It would seem that this disease is more typical for the cold season, but it is often “brought” after a vacation in warm regions. And the whole vacation immediately goes down the drain, as they say. The fact is that sinusitis occurs not only as a complication after a long runny nose, acute respiratory infection or flu, which are typical for autumn and winter. The disease may also have a bacterial origin. For example, a person took a swim in a dirty pond or in a pool in which the water has not been changed for weeks, and please - sinusitis will not keep you waiting. Moreover, in this case it more often becomes chronic.

What's in your bosom?

Sinusitis is an inflammation of the maxillary paranasal sinus. In medicine it is called maxillary, hence the name.

Due to a cold or germs, the mucous membrane swells and blocks the outlet from the sinuses into the nasal cavity. Mucus accumulates in them, in which bacteria begin to develop even more actively. They lead to disease.

Pus appears in the sinuses, it begins to put pressure on the walls of the nose, which causes severe pain. Toxins produced by microbes are absorbed into the body of a sick person and cause characteristic symptoms of intoxication, namely malaise, headache and fever...

What to do with such a misfortune?

Identify in time

First of all, of course, do not take a runny nose lightly. If it lasts several weeks, be sure to go to an ENT doctor. Do not think that if nasal discharge is clear, then it is definitely not sinusitis. It is quite insidious and can deceive for a long time due to the light color of the mucus. Either one maxillary sinus or both sinuses can become inflamed. If only one sinus is inflamed, then the discharge may be on this side.

So, the main symptom is a prolonged runny nose. But there are still many signs of sinusitis that accompany a runny nose.

Difficulty breathing due to swelling of the sinus mucosa.

Due to constant nasal congestion, the voice becomes nasal.

If the sinuses are inflamed on both sides, then a decrease in the sense of smell is also a symptom. You may suffer from dry mouth and discomfort in the ears.

In the acute form of sinusitis, pressing on the cheeks in the sinus area causes acute pain, they can even hurt for no reason.

Acute headache in the forehead, which sharply intensifies, as if piercing the bridge of the nose, if the head is first tilted forward and then quickly raised.

The general condition worsens: body temperature may rise sharply, weakness and lethargy occur, and appetite disappears.

The acute form of sinusitis usually lasts no longer than two weeks. If no measures are taken to treat sinusitis, it will become chronic.

Don't let it puncture

X-rays or computed tomography (a more informative method) of the paranasal sinuses help establish the diagnosis. So don’t delay visiting a doctor, don’t let the disease become chronic. The infection can spread to the lungs, tonsils, and even (which is fortunately rare) to the brain. Without taking any measures to treat sinusitis, you risk getting a sore throat, pneumonia or meningitis.

Self-treatment of advanced sinusitis is almost impossible, because medications usually require antibiotics. Physiotherapy is also necessary. And if this does not help, they resort to surgery. In these cases, one cannot do without a puncture (puncture), which, by the way, needlessly causes panic in patients: modern means of pain relief allow this procedure to be performed without causing suffering to the person.

To help basic treatment

There are quite popular traditional medicine recipes that help treat sinusitis. But remember that these remedies can only be considered as auxiliary to the treatment prescribed by the doctor. It’s even better to use folk recipes as a preventative measure when a runny nose has not yet turned into sinusitis.

Among the effective methods:

Rinsing the nose with salt water. To prepare the solution, you can use both table salt and dry sea salt (strain the prepared solution) in the proportion: a teaspoon of salt per glass of warm water. You can also use a soda-salt solution for these purposes: 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, a teaspoon of salt per glass of warm water.

Children can rinse their nose with any mineral water or warm water with the addition of a few drops of calendula tincture, or eucalyptus tincture, or a few drops of alcohol tincture of iodine. Before rinsing, you can drip vasoconstrictor drops (naphthyzin, galazolin) into your nose. After washing - diluted beet juice.

It is useful to eat more horseradish and garlic; substances contained in plants help cleanse the paranasal sinuses of mucus. It is also recommended to sniff horseradish and garlic crushed into a pulp.

For sinusitis, it is recommended to tap the nose (bridge of the nose) for 2-3 minutes with the large phalanx of the thumb. Rest for 5-20 minutes and repeat. Do it at least 2 times an hour.

The patient’s condition is greatly alleviated by regular rubbing of the paranasal sinuses with mustard oil - near the wings of the nose, the bridge of the nose, above the eyes. Our grandmothers always warmed these places - with hot salt, sand, and a hard-boiled egg. But modern medicine does not recommend such heating, as they can cause dangerous complications.

By the way

For a patient with sinusitis, air humidity matters. When the air is dry, the nasal mucosa dries out. If there is no special humidifier and the weather is dry, then you can hang wet towels in the living areas; It is also recommended to shower more often.

You can do inhalation - inhale water vapor through your nose (over a saucepan or over a kettle). But the water should not be too hot.

Advice

My grandma's recipe

This advice was used by many of our relatives and friends with a prolonged runny nose and sinusitis. I tested it myself and the result exceeded my expectations. The recipe is quite simple, although its implementation causes some inconvenience. You need to take half a teaspoon of fresh butter and grind it with a pinch of baking soda (do not overdo it with soda, otherwise it will sting too much). Using cotton wool, rub this mixture as deeply as possible into each nostril several times. Then lie down for at least an hour after the procedure without a pillow, if possible without removing the flagella with oil from the nose.

General strengthening agents

To strengthen the body weakened by illness, in the morning instead of the first breakfast I recommend additional nutrition:

2 tbsp. l. raw buckwheat kernels, 1 tbsp. l. peeled pine nuts, 10 pieces of raisins, 2 pieces each. dried apricots and prunes, 1 slice of lemon with peel. Pour everything into a porcelain bowl with 7 tbsp. l. cold boiled water, cover and leave overnight.

Before taking the mixture, brush your teeth, tongue and rinse your mouth with this solution: 1 glass of water at room temperature with 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice. Then you need to dissolve the St. John's wort oil for another 5 minutes. We have already told you how to prepare it.

In addition, it would be good to gently cleanse the liver, weakened by medications and the consequences of infection.

Even in such cases, medicine made from chaga and walnuts is beneficial.

First, we prepare a tincture of young walnuts in their skins, collected before July 7th. We fill a three-liter jar with them, fill it to the top with vodka and leave for 21 days. When the tincture is almost ready, soak 1.5 kg of chaga in 5 liters of water (temperature 60°) for a day. Three chaga on a grater and again leave to infuse for a day, then filter. Pour the nut tincture into the chaga infusion , add 300 g of toadflax and Echinops seeds, and add 200 ml of milkweed juice. Mix everything and leave for another 21 days. The finished strained medicine should be taken 2 tbsp. l. 3 times a day 10 minutes before meals.

Our patient was treated with the listed drugs for a total of 2 years. As a result, he felt much better. It works, as the headaches have subsided, the nose can breathe freely, and in 4 years - not a single sore throat. The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis remained in doubt. But in such a situation, it is still better to play it safe: take care of yourself, do a CT scan of the brain every year and see your doctor.

Still just a runny nose

It is much easier to give someone a runny nose or to get one yourself as a result of a handshake. The most “virus-carrying” places and objects are those that we touch most often, especially with dirty hands: telephone (both mobile and landline), computer keyboard and mouse, handrails of public transport.

In order not to lead to complications, you need to fight a runny nose from the very first days.

Forget the joke: “if a runny nose is treated, it goes away in a week, but if left untreated, it goes away in seven days.” The accumulation of mucus in the nasal passages has never benefited anyone. If left untreated, in addition to sinusitis, otitis or eustacheitis may develop - inflammation of the middle and inner ear. Defense must be built from the very beginning of the disease; depending on the stage of development of the runny nose, different means must be used.

In the first days of illness. Home physiotherapy. Apply a bag of rice or millet heated in a frying pan, hot jacket potatoes, or a hard-boiled chicken egg to the area of the maxillary sinuses. To achieve the effect, only 5-10 minutes of such warming is enough.

Inhaling warm steam also helps - after boiling potatoes, boiling herbal infusions of chamomile, mint, oregano. Make a funnel out of a thick towel, place the wide end on a container with hot infusion, and press the narrow end to your nose. You should not inhale sharply through your nose, so as not to burn the mucous membrane. Duration – 10–12 minutes.

In the next three days. Thermal procedures for sinusitis are beneficial only in the first 2–3 days. If during this time the symptoms still remain, then further heating will contribute to the transition of sinusitis to a purulent form. Therefore, take up another kind of prevention - do not neglect anti-inflammatory and vasoconstrictor nasal drops, even if it seems to you that your runny nose is “almost gone.”

After placing 2-3 drops of medicine into one nostril, turn your head so that this nostril “looks” to the side and up. This way, part of the solution will enter the internal cavities of the nose and prevent inflammation. The use of drugs that have a vasoconstrictor effect is the basis for the treatment of sinusitis. However, they are not used for long: 2-3 times a day for 3-7 days, after which it is necessary to take a break from treatment for several days.

All the time I'm sick. It is good to use homeopathic medicines. Their mild, practically harmless effect is at the same time quite effective and often allows one to avoid complications.

If the doctor deems it necessary, during illness it makes sense to undergo a course of physical therapy - exposure to currents or a magnetic field, ultrasound will help deal with the most distant foci of infection inside the ear and consolidate the achieved result.

After being cured. To prevent the disease from returning, you need to ensure that your head does not get too cold. It is believed that people prone to sinusitis should, if possible, avoid unnecessary contact with water and cold air - in the cold season it is better to avoid visiting the pool and outdoor sports.

Folk recipes

To lower the temperature during a sore throat, after brushing your teeth, tongue and gargling, you can drink 1 glass of green tea and eat 1 lemon with the peel, sprinkled with sugar (for diabetes, 1 teaspoon of honey is enough). The temperature will drop quickly.
On a sore throat, put a compress with lemon juice diluted half with water at night and wrap the throat. Wet cloths with the same solution and place them under the armpits and also in the groin to lower the temperature.
If a patient with a sore throat also has allergic reactions, it is good to take a decoction of bay leaves: 22 pcs. 0.5 liters of boiling water, boil for 3-5 minutes, close the lid and leave for 8 hours. Drink a little throughout the day. Children under 14 years old need 1 glass per day, others - 0.5 liters.

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We irrigate the nose and reduce swelling

You can avoid sinusitis if, when you have a runny nose, you try to relieve swelling in the nose as quickly as possible, and prevent the closure of the vessels connecting the maxillary sinuses with the nasal passages, through which the fluid comes out. Vasoconstrictor drugs, or rather drops and sprays, with which pharmacy chains are filled, help with this. Accustoming to such medications will not occur if they are used for less than 7 days. Further, swelling, drying of the mucous membranes and swelling of the capillaries will develop even more. Of these drugs are recommended:

Sanorin;
Tizin;
Naphthyzin;
Glazolin;
Rhinorus;
Xylene;
Nazol.

Glazolin for sinusitis

For children, for the prevention and treatment of sinusitis, sea buckthorn and peach oils, which have additional antiviral properties, are useful, but they are used in the absence of allergies and only with the permission of the pediatrician.

Read Features of physiotherapy for sinusitis

To improve nasal breathing, the following are also recommended:

warm compresses on the nose area;
washing with saline solutions;
hot foot baths;
instillation of folk remedies, for example, carrot or beet juice;
steam inhalations with a nebulizer or thermal inhalations.