What Is Sinusitis?
How long does sinusitis last for?
Sinusitis refers to the inflammation of your sinus cavities and can often lead to sinus infection. If you have a sinus infection, you can expect that it will resolve in less than a month. Sometimes, symptoms will subside on their own but you may want to check with your doctor for treatment.
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What is sinusitis? I'm Dr. Manan Shah. I'm an ENT with Wyndly Health. Sinusitis is the medical term for inflammation of your sinus cavities. But what are the sinuses? Well, I like to think of the nose as a hallway. Air can flow down this hallway and in to your lungs, but off of this hallway are rooms. And you can see them here.
You actually have sinuses in your cheeks. You have sinuses in your forehead. You have some between your eyes and you have some deep in the back of your head, which you can see here. When the tissue inside of these rooms, or these sinuses gets inflamed, we call it sinusitis.
What Are the Symptoms?
And what patients experience is they'll feel pain and pressure and will sometimes feel like their nose is stuffy and clogged. They'll get drainage. And sometimes they'll just feel overall sick.
Treatment Options
There's a lot of ways to treat it. And we always recommend, if you think you have sinusitis, you should be checked out by a doctor. If you have any questions, please let us know.
