Pterygoid sinusitis may be associated with a bacterial infection or a fungal infection, and both types of pterygoid sinusitis can lead to headache symptoms. Common treatments include: general treatment, topical treatment, medication, and surgery. The specific type of treatment needs to be determined according to the patient’s specific situation.
1. General treatment: including strengthening nutrition, paying attention to rest, physical exercise, quitting smoking and alcohol, improving the living and working environment, removing or controlling diabetes and other chronic systemic diseases.
2. Local treatment: including nasal local physiological sea saline, saline rinsing or nasal replacement and other measures, which can help to improve the local cleaning of the nasal cavity, promote the recovery of nasal mucosal cilia activity, and help the recovery of pteroid sinusitis.
3. Medications: medications include nasal glucocorticosteroids, such as mometasone furoate; macrolide antibiotics, such as roxithromycin; mucus promoters, such as eucalyptus-pinocampus enteric soft capsules; antipyretic and analgesic medications, such as ibuprofen delayed-release capsule, and so on.
4. Surgery: Surgery is needed for the blockage of the pterygoid sinus due to abnormal nasal anatomy, such as deviated nasal septum, enlarged middle turbinate, nasal polyps, etc., which are not effective in conservative treatment; surgery is also recommended for fungal sinusitis. Surgery is also recommended for fungal sinusitis. The sinus opening of the pterygoid sinus is sufficiently opened to clean up the secretions in the sinus cavity, while consolidating the treatment with follow-up medication.
So if the headache caused by pterygoid sinusitis, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, according to the condition of targeted treatment, the above drugs need to be used under the guidance of the doctor.