What are the dangers of sinusitis?

Patients need to be aware of the dangers of sinusitis, and pay attention to early detection and early treatment of these diseases, because it can cause severe headaches and nausea, or cause adverse conditions such as decreased appetite and poor memory.

1. Sinusitis can cause severe headaches and nausea.

One of the main symptoms of sinusitis is headache. Headaches caused by sinusitis often occur during the day, and the location and time of the headache are relatively stable and regular. In the early stage, it manifests as a diffuse headache, and in the later stage, the pain is often limited to a certain area along with the affected sinus. Headaches caused by sinusitis are often accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, olfactory impairment, etc. The headaches are more obvious when bending over, lowering the head, or turning the body. Patients with sinusitis, especially acute sinusitis, have more significant headaches.

2. Children with sinusitis often experience mental depression

If children suffer from chronic sinusitis, they are prone to lethargy, loss of appetite, poor memory, fatigue, headache and dizziness. Since children cannot blow their noses, the secretions often accumulate in the nasal cavity and sinuses, and even flow back into the pharynx, causing severe nasal congestion and mouth breathing, resulting in stagnation of maxillofacial development, uneven alignment of the maxillary front teeth, thick lower lip, and an "adenoid face". If the adenoids are enlarged at the same time, the child will snore, refuse to eat, and have difficulty breathing while sleeping.

3. Sinusitis can easily cause memory loss in middle school students

The main reasons why middle school students are prone to sinusitis are as follows: first, they do not receive timely treatment after catching a cold; second, the air is not clean, and long-term stimulation from harmful substances such as dust is caused; third, rhinitis is not treated in time, and the early mild symptoms eventually develop into sinusitis, which brings many negative impacts on the patient's study and life.

4. It can cause osteomyelitis

Many times it will lead to osteomyelitis. Osteomyelitis refers to chronic suppurative sinusitis that has not been cured for a long time and is prone to cause osteomyelitis of the frontal, sphenoid, ethmoid and maxillary bones. It is common in frontal bone osteomyelitis. In addition to tenderness in the sinus area, the headache is characterized by dull pain like stuffiness and distension. If osteomyelitis does not heal for a long time, there may be yellow-green nasal discharge, and X-ray films may show unclear bone structure, dead bone formation, and sinus bone wall defects.

5. If you don’t take preventive measures, it will lead to lesions and downward infection.

Failure to take preventive measures will lead to lesions and downward infection, especially the downward flow of purulent sinus secretions from the nasopharynx, which can cause pharyngitis, tonsillitis, otitis media, tracheitis and other diseases. As a lesion, purulent sinusitis can also cause infectious arthritis, tenosynovitis and skin diseases.