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Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Best Natural Solutions for Sinus Infections

Sinusitis (commonly known as a sinus infection) is inflammation, either bacterial, viral, allergic or autoimmune, of the paranasal sinuses.

What You Need to Know about Sinus Infection Symptoms

It can be acute (going on less than three weeks) or chronic (going on more than three weeks). Sinusitis is one of the most common complications of the common cold. Sinus Infection symptoms include: Headache; facial pain; nasal congestion; fever; general malaise; thick green or yellow discharge; feeling of facial ‘fullness’ worsening on bending over.

Factors which may predispose to developing sinusitis include: allergies; structural problems such as a deviated nasal septum; smoking; nasal polyps; carrying the cystic fibrosis gene (research is still tentative).

Here’s some info on something that is allergy-related: wheat allergy. While this isn’t so closely related to sinus infections, it’s just another thing you might want to be familiar with to reduce other effects of histamine.

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