How long after an extraction will the sinus problems go away?
Had a tooth extracted yesterday. Upper molar #3. It was causing some sinus problems (lightheadedness, dizziness, etc.) The tooth had a vrf and was believed to be infected, that is why it was extracted. How long will those sinus problems last now that the tooth has been pulled?
Arty
How can i tell if i have a sinus infection or just a common cold?
I dont want to have to the doctor unless i have to. And with a sinus infection would my throat hurt?
Flann
Natural Remedies for Sinus Headaches
Sinusitis is very common, but not a severe affliction. If left untreated it can become serious because of bacterial growth in the sinus. The cause of sinusitis is the inflammation of any of the Para nasal sinuses, the frontal or ethmoidal sinuses. If you wake up with a headache, feeling congested, and have fluffy and swelling around your eye, then you have sinus headache. Usually the cause of a sinus headache is a virus or bacterial infection causing sinusitis. This type of headache can also be caused by allergens in the air.
In his book, Quick Headache Relief Without Drugs, 1977, Howard D. Kurland, M.D. tells of a lady that ignored medical treatment and used only natural remedies for her sinus problems.
“I met an American woman living in Hong Kong who had been given acupuncture treatments for sinus headaches. The treatments almost completely alleviated the pain, and she was well satisfied with them – until an alert physician discovered that the disease, in this case bacteria sinusitis, had progressed to a very dangerous point. The sinusitis had eroded part of the sinus bone, and the infection was rapidly making its way to her brain”
So regardless of what treatments you use for a sinus headache make sure you also see a doctor about your sinusitis.
Here a few natural remedies for sinus headaches that you can use.
1. Do a steam inhalation with distilled or reverse osmosis water twice a day. Put a cloth over your head, move close to the steamer, and inhale steam through your nose. This brings warm, moist air into the mucous membrane and respiratory tract. Do this inhalation for 2 minutes or more and repeat every half hour until you feel better. This process helps to:
” Relieves the inflammation and congestion of the mucus membrane of the upper respiratory tract.
” Relieves irritation by the moistening the air.
” Loosens the secretions and stimulates expectoration.
” Relieves the spasmodic breathing
” Relaxes the muscles and thus relieves coughing.
” Relieves excessive dryness of the mucous membrane.
2. A Hot foot bath remedy for a sinus headache due to congestion. Place your feet, ankles and legs into the hot bath. Leave your feet in the hot water for 10 – 15 minutes
” Relieves head, chest and pelvic congestion by drawing the blood from those areas to the legs and feet
” Relieves pain and spasms of the feet and legs.
” Induces sweating in case of fever-lowers body temperature.
” Relieves headaches
” Relaxes body the whole day.
” Increase circulation locally
” Relieves pain.
3. Hot compress for a sinus headache. Apply a hot compress to the forehead, nose or sinus area for 10 minutes. You may have to reheat the compress. This will relieve your sinus congestion and headache pain.
4. Drink at least 6-8 glasses of water or fruit juices during the day to help mucus flow out of the sinus area. Natural fresh juices work better than bottled juices, but use what is available.
There you have it, 4 different natural remedies for sinus headaches that you can use to relieve your sinus headaches and at the same time get relief from your sinusitis. Use them all and see which works the best for you.
By: Rudy Silva
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Rudy Silva is a natural nutritionist that provides you more tips and information on how you can eliminate headache pain at this site: http://www.remedies-for-headaches.com/
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Coping With Sinus Trouble
In fact, Dr. A. P. Seltzer, an authority on sinus conditions, found that, of a thousand persons who felt they had trouble with their sinuses, only 12 percent actually did. But whether you have trouble with your sinuses or not, information about them should prove of interest and may even be of help to you.
Just what are the sinuses? A sinus is simply “a recess, cavity or hollow space.” There are many sinuses in our bodies, but the most notable of these are the four pairs of sinuses situated close to or connected with the nasal cavity. These are known as the “paranasal” sinuses, and it is only these that are being considered here.
Their Location
The largest of these sinuses are two pyramid-shaped ones, located on each side of the nose, in the upper jawbone. These sinuses reach from just above the roots of the upper teeth to the eye sockets. In the average adult they involve a little more than a cubic inch of space.
Smaller in size are the frontal sinuses, which are located in the forehead above the eyes. Behind these frontal sinuses, but on a lower level, are a pair of sinuses situated in the ethmoid or ‘sievelike’ bone. Each of these sinuses actually consists of a labyrinth of cells, from as few as three to as many as eighteen. Another pair of sinuses are located behind the ethmoid sinuses and on a still lower level, in fact, near the base of the skull.
Regarding these sinuses we are told that there is no such thing as uniformity in their size, shape and number. Except, perhaps, that usually they occupy the same amount of space whether they consist of many cells or compartments or only a few.
Purpose Served
What is the purpose served by all these hollows, cavities, recesses or sinuses? While there are some who doubt that they serve any purpose, even as many long held that the thymus gland served no purpose, it does seem reasonable to those who believe in a Creator that they have a reason for existence as does every other part of the human body.
For one thing, they lighten the weight of our skulls. Further, our sinuses without a doubt improve the resonance of our voices, as they allow the bones of the skull to vibrate more readily. Our sinuses most likely help to moisten the air we breathe as well as to warm it, for good ventilation is needed in our sinuses if we would enjoy good health. And not a few hold that our sinuses help the body to get rid of waste matter, such as phlegm or mucus.
Why Sinus Trouble?
Sinusitis has no typical symptoms peculiar to it, so it is not always easy to tell whether one has sinusitis or not. Why this is so is clear when we note that generally sinusitis is secondary to some other condition, most usually the common cold or infection of the upper nasal passages. Thus headaches, fever, dizziness, loss of appetite or one’s sense of smell, and so forth, may or may not indicate sinusitis.
Why do our sinuses, or more strictly speaking, the membranes of our sinuses, give us trouble at times? Because of excessive discharges from them or because of the closing of their ducts leading to the nose or throat due to their being inflamed. Among the more immediate causes are growths or polyps that close the ducts leading from the sinuses or, more often, inflammation of the nose, which may spread to the mucous membranes of the sinuses.
A tendency to inflammation of the membranes may be inherited. Then again, unfavorable prenatal conditions may have given us a bad start, as may lack of proper food or lack of loving parental care in early childhood. Lack of control of the emotions may be an inducing cause, even as excessive worrying, tensions and frictions with those with whom we live or work can be. Sinusitis may also be triggered by extremes of humidity or temperature to which one is not accustomed.
One’s sinus trouble may be due to a generally debilitated condition caused by a serious illness or due to overindulgence in enervating pleasures. It may be caused by allergies, infections and improper eating habits, lack of exercise and not getting enough rest and sleep. All such things can cause acute sinusitis, which, if unchecked or not cured, can result in the more stubborn but less pronounced chronic sinusitis.
What Can Be Done About It?
As with other health problems, prevention comes first. Well has it been observed, “It is the ounce of prevention that is the most significant factor in health.”
Get sufficient rest and sleep as well as plenty of fresh air. Eat wholesome food, and do not overload your system. It is well to adopt some regimen of exercise, especially if yours is a sedentary occupation, so that you can enjoy a feeling of well-being. Sinus sufferers often are very suggestible, so they may need to put forth a special effort to develop wholesome mental and emotional habits.
Guard against having rooms too warm and dry—better comfortably cool than luxuriously warm. Eliminate tobacco if you are a smoker and cut down on alcoholic beverages if you are very fond of them.
Among remedies recommended are taking in sufficient liquids such as water or fruit juices—not beer and coffee! Hot compresses, hot steam or sauna baths and the use of the enema to help the body clean out waste matter are recommended by some authorities. Especially is cutting down on rich and highly refined foods urged by those who view sinus trouble as an effort on the part of the body to throw off waste matter.
One nature doctor recommends the onion poultice. (Chop onions fine, place between two pieces of gauze and bind around the neck when going to bed.) Others advocate inhaling hot water vapor.
The medical practitioner may well recommend some of the foregoing as well as prescribe decongestants and antihistamines. Decongestants reduce the swelling of the membranes, but if given as drops or sprays, they should not be administered more than ten days in a row. Especially is caution indicated in their use in patients with high blood pressure. In more severe cases a doctor may prescribe antibiotics and aspirin or something stronger to relieve the pain. In chronic cases some may advise an operation, but more so in times past than now.
The chiropractor, on the other hand, proceeds on the premise that sinusitis is a case of hypersensitivity, especially involving the sympathetic nervous system. He treats sinusitis both locally, by manipulating the vertebrae, where lie the nerves leading to the head, and systemically, by seeking to improve the general health of the patient as a whole. More and more chiropractors apply pressure to the sinuses and concern themselves with nutrition when treating sinusitis.
There are other approaches too. But after all is said and done it cannot be stressed too strongly that moderation and self-control are basic. He who gives thought to sound nutrition, adequate exercise, sufficient rest and sleep and proper mental and emotional habits is practicing preventive medicine as regards his sinuses.
Most persons appear to be more neglectful of their bodies than they are of their automobiles. Yet the laws of cause and effect work as inexorably in the case of one as in the case of the other, and of how infinitely much more value are their bodies than their autos! This principle applies not only to sinusitis but to every other ill that afflicts the human race. Not without good reason has an authority on sinusitis noted: “First in importance here as elsewhere is the general health of the person, since the normal activity of all mucous tissues depends largely upon the well-being of the body as a whole.”
By: Jeams Hinaloc
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Alvynn
can a sinus problem make you have headaches?
i have a sinus problem and i’m on fexafenadine for it. it’s to clear it out of my sinus passages. i, admitedly, do not take it every day. could this be the reason of the headaches (cuz i’m not taking the meds everyday)?
Basile
What is the best medicine to cure sinus infection?
I have sinus infection, and want to buy a medicine to end it. But I don’t know which is the best to buy at drugstore.
Austin
Sinus Infection – Cure Your Sinus Problems Naturally Now! – Sinus Nurse Reports!
Sinusitis or sinus infections are one of the most common health complaints in the U. S. People are diagnosed usually after a reviewing of the patient’s history and a physical examination, and going over the patient’s symptoms, however many people are fully aware they have one without ever visiting their doctor.
A common symptom that is usually but not always present if you have a sinus infection is yellowish mucous or phlegm. While green and clear mucous can be signs of other types of infections or problems, usually yellow mucous or sputum means the sinuses are infected. If you think you have a sinus infection make sure to note the color of your sputum. The sinuses drain down into the throat and you may feel a lump or something there from time to time. Sinusitis can also be a complication of an allergy too
In people who have chronic sinusitis, the openings of the sinus cavities are blocked and narrowed. Nasal secretions, debris, particles and infectious material back up into the one of the sets of sinus cavities, often leading to pain and pressure but not always because it’s systemic one can feel tired or lethargic.
Your doctor may use a light to look into the sinuses that can be reached to look for any inflammation. If the light doesn’t shine through, the sinuses then the sinuses are blocked. Not all the sinus cavities can be viewed this way however.
There are actually four sets of sinuses located in your behind your face and in your head.
The sinuses are air-filled cavities. In healthy people, there are nasal openings that drain debris and mucous out of the cavities and into the nose.
Of the many symptoms that can be present in a sinus infection they can include a stuffy nose, which can run for ten days or more and often two weeks if it isn’t taken care of properly, a runny nose with clear, often yellow or sometimes green mucus, sometimes fever, daytime cough – especially in the morning, a scratchy throat, smelly breath – found often in young children, sometimes a swelling around the eyes, sinus headaches (it used to be thought they were uncommon but not anymore) and facial pain.
If you have difficult breathing and a cough together these are usually symptoms of sinusitis or bronchitis. When sleeping at night if you lay flat, your sinuses may drain into your lungs. Sometimes this can cause pneumonia. If you have a full blown infection it is better to sleep propped up with pillows.
The treatment of sinus infections should be to resolve the infection, reduce swelling and promote sinus drainage, prevent any serious complications, such as pneumonia, meningitis or brain abscess, and stop this process in its tracks. You may benefit from an air purifier if your sinus infections are allergy-related, or if you live in a smoke-filled environment or they occur too often.
Commonly used medical therapies, including saline nasal sprays, humidification, moisturization and nasal irrigation can be very effective for anyone suffering from chronic sinus infections.
There are drug-free, effective sinus treatments today that are totally natural. My friends and family members and others who have suffered for years with sinus problems, sinus infections and constantly running noses or stuffed noses, no longer suffer today. Seek out these sinus cures, ‘busters’ and natural treatments and get rid of your sinus problems forever.
By: Helen Hecker
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For more info on how I cured myself of chronic sinus infections go to a nurse’s website http://www.Sinus-Solutions.com for tips, sinus treatments, natural sinus treatments, causes and remedies for all types including info on symptoms, surgery, nasal irrigation and sinus headaches
Arun
What could be a possible treatment for a sinus problem and nagging cough that won’t go away?
Cough medicine and antibiotics have already been used and they didn’t work.
Fidel
Help! Weird lower sinus cavity / back of throat problem?
I have the weirdest sinus problem. Actually I’m not sure if it’s my sinuses. It is very low, it’s located between the lower sinus cavity and the back of the throat…
If you imagine the back of your throat, and then the edge of your upper palette, then go up an inch or so, it’s as if it’s clogged. It worsens at night. Although I can breathe through my nose OK, I get an uneasy feeling air is being constricted and it causes difficulty swallowing which feels really unsettling.
I’m not sure what’s up there but I have had my tonsils and adenoids out a long time ago. I am trying to look up pictures on the internet so I can locate where the clog is but can’t locate a good picture of what is between the lower sinus and the upper throat.
Can anyone help??
Brandon
sinus rinse
a new and somewhat improved video of my sinus rinse. Hope it brings some light to the dangerous and dark world of sinus rinse stuff.
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