What is sinusitis, symptoms and how to prevent it naturally
The sinusitis is a condition that can affect both children and adults and that It arises when the mucosa of the paranasal sinuses become inflamed. In most cases it appears as an inflammatory focus of the nose and as a result of this, in addition to being inflamed, the breasts become infected by an excess of mucus.
When the inflammatory focus of the nose causes sinusitis it is called rhinosinusitis. You may wonder what are the paranasal sinuses ?, as paranasal sinuses include the maxillary, frontal, ethmoidal and sphenoidal sinuses. And what are the causes why we can suffer from this disease ?.
The origin of sinusitis is usually bacterial and it can appear for different reasons such as, after passing a cold or cold that has not healed well, after having passed the uncomfortable symptoms of an allergy.
Sinusitis can reach up to three phases depending on how it evolves and how long we are suffering from the symptoms. The phases that sinusitis can reach are:
- The acute phase, in which the symptoms of the disease is less than three weeks.
- The Subacute phase, in which the symptoms continue after three weeks and even reach three months.
- The chronic phase, without a doubt it is the worst of the phases in which the disease exceeds three months.
Symptoms of sinusitis
As we have said before if after having gone through an allergy phase, a cold or a badly cured catarrh and we noticed the following symptoms we should go to the doctor to make a review and prescribe the appropriate treatment.
The symptoms of going through sinusitis are the following:
- Continuous headaches.
- Intense pain in the eyes
- Intense facial pain.
- Frequent pain in the area of the forehead.
- Feeling of heaviness in the head when we lower it.
- Nasal obstruction
- Plentiful flow of mucus.
- Mucus thick and yellowish.
- Pus in the nasal cavity.
- Sense of smell decreased.
To detect if there are sinusitis, the medical tests that the professionals usually perform on the patient can be several:
- Simple radiology and CT.
- Cultivation of the nasal secretion (study of nasal flows).
- Rhinoscopy.
- Endoscopy
To avoid as much as possible suffering from sinusitis, the most important thing is to try to prevent it by strengthening our immune system through a healthy and balanced diet as well as healthy lifestyles.
Discover how to prevent a sinusitis naturally and how to relieve some of its symptoms
Through diet we can resort to foods that contain the following properties:
- With anti-inflammatory properties: tropical pineapple, bromelain (above present in the stem and pineapple juice), cranberries, cherries, blackberries.
- With decongesting properties: fruits, vegetables and vegetables rich in vitamin C such as orange, lemon, kiwi, strawberries, blackberries, grapes, pears, apples, cabbages, broccoli, spinach, watercress, leeks, onions, endive, garlic, radishes.
- Foods rich in vitamin A (beta carotene) such as orange, carrot, pepper, endive, pumpkin, celery, tomato, melon, peach, mango, watermelon, guava, cranberry.
- Introduce in our diet and increase the consumption of foods, nuts and cereals rich in Omega 3 such as blue fish, walnuts, almonds, flax.
Through herbs and medicinal plants we can prevent or improve some symptoms of sinusitis once we are suffering from it:
- To strengthen the defenses: Echinacea, boldo, green tea, cat's claw, licorice, guava leaves, gentian.
- To reduce inflammation: willow, licorice, ginger, chamomile, elderberry.
- To facilitate nasal decongestion: thyme, mallow, horehound, hyssop, eucalyptus vapors, cayenne pepper, nettle and rosemary.
- To facilitate breathing: poultices or cataplasms of verbena that we apply warm on the nose and cheeks.
- To soothe the headaches: chamomile, and the mixture of lime, ginger and willow in an infusion.
