Sinusitis is a type of rhinitis and is a very common condition. However, there are many different types of sinusitis, and different types of sinusitis present with different symptoms. Here we will look at the specific explanation.
What are the early symptoms of sinusitis?
A chronic sinusitis: more common than the acute, including the most chronic maxillary sinusitis.
1, chronic maxillary sinusitis: mainly for the affected or bilateral sinuses, anterior nasal drip or posterior nasal drip, sometimes nasal secretions with the change of head posture outflow, patients complain of sputum and smelly, secretions are mucopurulent or purulent. Patients often have dizziness or purulence. Patients often have dizziness and headache, memory loss, and inability to concentrate their thoughts.
2. Chronic pterygoid sinusitis: headache, especially at the top of the head and occipital area, intensified at night or after drinking alcohol. There may be facial pain, toothache, mastoid process, neck, shoulder and back neuralgia. For unexplained loss of sense of smell. Dizziness with unsteady gait and swaying from side to side, but without directional deviation, different from otologic vertigo. Posterior nasal drip.
3. Chronic septal sinusitis: it rarely occurs alone and the symptoms are not typical. Symptoms such as neuralgia, mental depression and lack of concentration are more common. When the sinus opening is obstructed, there can be nasal root or orbital distension and nasal congestion, olfactory impairment, and postnasal aperture runny.
4, chronic frontal sinusitis: forehead stuffiness, the affected side is more obvious. If the frontal sinus drainage is obstructed, headache may appear, there may be reflex headache in the trigeminal nerve distribution area, nasal congestion is obvious, often heavier in the morning, there may be persistent nasal congestion on the affected side. Nasal discharge is mucopurulent or purulent.
Acute sinusitis: acute inflammation of the mucous membrane of the sinuses, mostly occurs after a cold.
1. Acute maxillary sinusitis: In adults, headache symptoms are predominant, while in children, systemic symptoms are predominant. It manifests as high fever, dehydration, dyspnea, shortness of breath, refusal to eat, and in severe cases, irritability and convulsions. It is often accompanied by symptoms of respiratory tract infection, such as sore throat and cough. Most of the children do not describe the symptoms accurately and do not blow their noses, so the nasal discharge often flows backwards into the trachea and bronchi, thus causing aspiration pneumonia.
2, acute septic sinusitis: symptoms mainly include nasal congestion, runny nose (occasionally with blood), nasal root and medial orbital swelling and headache, conjunctiva may be congested and eye secretions may increase. There may be congestion in the conjunctiva and increased discharge from the eyes. Nasal endoscopy can confirm the diagnosis. Nasal examination may show acute congestion of nasal mucosa, redness and swelling of middle turbinate, and a lot of purulent secretions in the olfactory fissure. There is pressure pain in the medial canthus.
3.Acute frontal sinusitis: headache is the most prominent symptom, which can range from light vague pain to severe and unbearable severity. Nasal congestion and runny nose are bilateral and can be more pronounced on one side and lighter on the other. Initially, it is mostly mucus, then it becomes mucopurulent and can be bloody, and later the nasal discharge gradually evolves to purulent. Fever can be as high as 39c, and patients often feel general weakness and poor appetite.
4, acute pterygoid sinusitis: there are often reflex headache, hyposmia, dizziness, nasal secretions and other symptoms manifested. The pain of acute pterygoid sinusitis is deep in the skull, or can be radiated to the top of the head, behind the ear, the nature of the pain is mostly dull pain, sometimes there can be pain behind the eye and eye pressure, especially obvious when the eye is turned, but unlike the pain caused by the disease of the eye itself, the pain does not increase when the eye is pressed.
These are the early symptoms of sinusitis, and I hope that you will pay more attention to them to facilitate the timely detection of sinusitis in the future and to carry out treatment as soon as possible.