How to treat acute sinusitis

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The incidence rate of acute sinusitis is high in life. Acute sinusitis is an acute inflammation of the nasal mucosa. Everyone's understanding is not the same, mostly due to the development of acute rhinitis, turbinate hypertrophy, nasal mass and other factors affecting sinus drainage is also a common cause. Severe cases may involve bone wall, and even cause complications of adjacent organs and tissues. Maxillary sinusitis is more common. Patients often have persistent nasal obstruction, mucus, dysosmia and headache. Acute maxillary sinusitis in infants often leads to osteomyelitis of maxilla. How to treat acute sinusitis? Tell us.

How to treat acute sinusitis

First: usually pay attention to exercise, work and rest, dress appropriately, breathe more fresh air, avoid dry nose, do not easily drop nasal medicine. Timely diagnosis and treatment of nasal lesions, adjacent lesions infection need treatment.

Second: the general treatment is the same as that of acute rhinitis: there are three main drugs. One is to use sufficient antibiotics to control infection, and penicillin is the first choice. Second, 1% ephedrine solution, furacilin ephedrine solution and chloramphenicol ephedrine solution are commonly used. It can improve the nasal ventilation and smooth the nasal cavity, but these drugs are not suitable for long-term use, and may cause adverse reactions after long-term use. The third is analgesic or sedative drugs to relieve headache. If you have allergic rhinitis, you can also use drugs to treat allergic rhinitis. If you have asthma, you need to treat asthma and keep in touch with your doctor.

Third: maxillary sinus puncture irrigation: acute maxillary sinusitis should be performed after the general symptoms subside and local acute inflammation is basically controlled. After washing, antibacterial solution can be injected, 1 ~ 2 times a week until recovery.

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It is suitable for patients whose sinusitis and acute inflammation are basically controlled, but there is still a large amount of purulent nose and nasal obstruction, so as to facilitate sinus drainage.