You must think you have a cold when you have a stuffy nose, headache, yellow pus nose, and a cough. In fact, this may be the result of sinusitis. If neglected, the onset of sinusitis can vary from weeks, months to years, and develop into chronic and unrelenting.
The most annoying symptoms of chronic sinusitis are an endless stream of pus, a blocked nose causing breathlessness, coughing, loss of smell, headache, toothache, earache, forehead swelling or a feeling of pressure, and so on. Over time, patients may experience depression, lack of concentration, and reduced work efficiency, which seriously affects daily life. Sinusitis also tends to induce meningitis, cerebral edema, and damage to the optic and auditory nerves, causing vision and hearing loss. “Sinusitis is associated with viral infections and colds.” The doctor said, “However, it is usually harder to distinguish between a cold and sinusitis.” A cold virus causes inflammation and swelling of the nasal mucosa, and if not treated properly, bacteria can multiply in the sinuses and cause sinusitis. Sinusitis usually occurs about 10 days after an upper respiratory tract infection. In addition, poor nasal breathing due to the physiological structure is one of the important triggers of sinusitis.
There are rules to distinguish between patients with colds and sinusitis The key to treating sinusitis is to diagnose and treat it early. Although it is not too easy to identify sinusitis, experts believe, “There are still rules to distinguish between a cold and sinusitis.” If you have symptoms of a cold, but it’s not good after a week or two, or if it comes and goes, it could be sinusitis. If the snot is sticky and yellowish-green, it indicates a bacterial infection, which is also a symptom of sinusitis. Among the symptoms such as difficulty in breathing through the nose, nasal congestion, fatigue, cough, hoarse throat, and headache, if you have two or more, you may have sinusitis.
Patients with mild sinusitis can use medicines to relieve nasal congestion or antibiotics to control the inflammation of the nasal cavity. Chronic sinusitis that does not heal with conservative treatment must be treated minimally invasively with a nasal endoscope. Nasal endoscopy can check the nasal cavity for polyps or other abnormalities in the physiological structure that obstruct breathing, and the surgery can correct the structure of the nasal cavity to make the nasal cavity clear and treat sinusitis completely.
Traditional surgery cure rate is less than 30% Minimally invasive nasal endoscopic technology is effective “The traditional sinus surgery before the 1980s was based on the removal of sinus mucosa as the main method, which is considered to be a destructive surgery today, and the surgical cure rate is less than 30%.” Experts introduced that after the 1980s, with the birth of nasal endoscopic surgery in developed countries in Europe and the United States, minimally invasive treatment performed under the mirror has fundamentally solved the problem of treating sinusitis and nasal polyps.
The treatment can precisely show the anatomical structure of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity and sinuses, which can accurately locate the disease, change the previous surgical methods of tearing, pulling, tearing and tugging, reduce the damage to the skin or mucous membrane and the damage to the bone structure, completely remove the lesion, preserve the sinus mucosa, open the sinus drainage, correct the anatomical abnormality, increase the safety, shorten the time and have a high cure rate because of the small tissue damage and reduced bleeding.