This disease is easy to earn, but it is very difficult to cure. Often it accompanies a person all his life: with short breaks, the symptoms of sinusitis again and again make themselves felt, and treatment gives only a temporary effect. Can sinusitis be cured without surgery?
First signs of the diseaseSinusitis, or sinusitis, is an inflammation of the paranasal and frontal sinuses. Most often, the disease is triggered by a cold, flu or a common ARI. And therefore, the symptoms of sinusitis and treatment are similar to these diseases, that is, the severity of the problem can be underestimated. It is for this reason that in most cases, sinusitis becomes chronic.
How to distinguish sinusitis from a common cold or a cold? Usually, any uncomplicated cold goes away after seven days. There is even a half-joking expression about this: a treated runny nose lasts a week, untreated - seven days. If it lasts longer, it is accompanied by severe pain in the area of the eye sockets, teeth, frontal and facial parts, nasal discharge from yellow-green color - these are symptoms of sinusitis, and treatment should not be postponed.
Treatment methods
Going to the doctor is advice for all occasions. You can’t joke with sinusitis either, and the first step is a visit to the ENT doctor. According to his appointment, it will be necessary to make an X-ray or ultrasound of the paranasal sinuses of the nose and forehead and a number of tests. But medical treatments are still complex and intimidating. Most often, doctors hear that a puncture cannot be dispensed with. This is a simple, but very unpleasant and painful operation, which many know about. Is it possible to defeat sinusitis without such victims?
Symptoms, treatment with folk remedies
The choice of treatment by home methods depends on the symptoms. Of course, a complex, neglected stage of folk remedies can not do. But the disease can be suppressed in the initial stages.
Washing the
sinuses of the nose with decoctions of medicinal herbs is very effective. Folk healers widely use two herbs - St. John's wort and yarrow, which have strong anti-inflammatory and cleansing properties. A teaspoon of dry raw materials of one of the herbs is brewed for 15-20 minutes in a glass of boiling water. A strained broth is washed in the nasal passages. At first, this procedure seems complicated, but you need to adapt. It is necessary to have a special
teapot with a narrow nose. Tilting your head to one side over the sink, you need to pour the warm infusion into one nostril so that it flows freely from the other. Then repeat everything in the opposite direction. The same herbs must be taken orally at the same time: insist 20 g of raw materials for half an hour in a glass of boiling water, strain and drink three times a day, 150 g in warm form. Herbal treatment is especially effective if purulent sinusitis develops. Symptoms will let you know about the improvement: when the outflow of the contents of the maxillary sinuses is adjusted and, accordingly, the swelling of the mucous membrane decreases, then headaches and toothaches will decrease.
Thermal procedures
Particularly intensive heating of the sinuses is not recommended, but moderate thermal procedures are very desirable. There is an excellent remedy - blue clay compresses. Judging by the reviews, they eliminate the symptoms of sinusitis in a few days, and the treatment does not contain anything complicated. It is necessary to take pharmacy clean clay, dilute with warm water to a thick slurry, apply on gauze napkins and put on the area of the maxillary sinuses. Pre-grease the skin with vegetable oil. Hold the compress for at least an hour.
With exacerbation of chronic sinusitis, warm compresses from the infusion of bay leaves help well. Pour three large leaves with hot water, bring to a boil and let it brew a little. In a hot liquid, moisten a dense cloth, put on sore spots, cover with a terry cloth on top to keep it warm. When the fabric has cooled, you need to moisten it again in a hot broth and put it on the frontal and nasal sinuses.
Another tip, quite extreme. Mix garlic juice in equal parts with warm honey. Lie on the sofa, collect one drop of the drug and drop it into one nostril and immediately turn your head to the side so that the medicine does not fall into the nasopharynx, but into the paranasal sinus. It will burn very hard, to tears, but it will last only a minute or two, you can endure it. The same thing to do on the other hand. The same puncture effect occurs, and the discharge quickly leaves the nose. You can drip only one drop once a day. This, by the way, is the principle of action of a very effective, but very expensive Sinuforte drug.
At your fingertips you will always find effective remedies that will help you avoid complications of this unpleasant disease.