Chronic sinusitis is not a condition that is dangerous for your life, but it can have a negative influence on you. Just imagine that you are not able to concentrate on your work due to severe headaches, fever, blocked nose, and chronic tiredness. Moreover, according to the recent surveys, chronic sinusitis is as one of the main causes of absence from work.

When suffering from sinusitis your sinuses are infected or inflamed. If the symptoms stay for a long time or return, this is a chronic sinusitis. The most common signs of sinusitis are: discharge of yellow or greenish colour, stuffiness in nose, facial pain, decreased sense of smell or taste, tussis, sore throat, bad breath, nausea and tiredness.

There are a number of reasons that may cause chronic sinusitis. Nasal polyps or nasal tumors can block the nose, making it vulnerable to infection.  Such physical disorders as nasal deviated septum might also cause chronic sinusitis because of bad drainage of the sinuses. Among other causes are dental infections, allergies, or untreated acute sinusitis that can develop into chronic sinusitis.

When curing chronic sinusitis

• Patients are typically prescribed to take antibiotic treatment for about 4 weeks.
• Antibiotics fight the bacteria provoking the infection and prevent from its further development.
• Antibiotics can be taken orally,  by intravenous administration or by the use of nasal spray.

As a rule, antibiotic treatment is safe and doesn’t cause many side reactions. It has also proved to be very effective.  The reports show that taking the appropriate antibiotic cures sinusitis in the majority of cases.

When taking antibiotic treatment, it is very important to administer the medications the way it has been prescribed by the doctor. Some patients stop taking antibiotics once the symptoms are gone or they feel better. Other people take lower dosages of the medications or don’t follow the regime of taking the medications in a proper way. In this case the infection might come back. There is also the risk of becoming resistant to the healing effects of the medication if not taken in a proper way.

As with any other medication, antibiotics may cause some side reactions. Among the most common are the following: diarrhea, disordered stomach, vaginal yeast infection, allergy, inflammation of the small and large intestine.