Testing children with acute sinusitis symptoms for specific bacteria may dramatically decrease unnecessary antibiotic use, new research suggests. If antibiotic use was limited to children with H ...

Acute sinusitis (acute rhinosinusitis) causes the cavities around your nasal passages (sinuses) to become inflamed and swollen. This interferes with drainage and causes mucus to build up. With acute ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Acute sinusitis is inflammation of mucosa lining of one or more paranasal sinuses. In children, most cases begin ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have had ongoing nasal congestion and mucus for the past several months. I thought it was allergies, but my doctor says I likely have acute sinusitis brought on by allergic ...

symptoms (nasal discharge and/or cough) for >10 days without improvement no co-existing illness follow-up for and begin antibiotics if symptoms worsen at any time or fail to improve within 3 days 45 ...

In otherwise healthy patients, antibiotics are likely more harmful than beneficial, especially in patients with symptoms less than 14 days. Current studies examining the efficacy of antibiotics for ...

Acute sinus infections often start with allergies or a viral infection. Recurrent sinus infections occur when you have multiple sinus infections over a year. Complications of sinus infections are rare ...

Objective: To assess the effect of a short course of low-dose oral corticosteroid used as an adjunct to antimicrobials in patients with acute infective sinusitis. Study Design and Patients: ...

You know it's not the flu because no one else is sick, and you know it's not a cold because you had that last week. So what's causing that killer headache and the feeling that your nose is locked in a ...

Use of antibiotics for acute sinusitis in children reduces treatment failures, a meta-analysis showed, but the results may also support initial observation given the natural history of the condition, ...

The Queen has pulled out of attending to the funeral of the Duchess of Kent while “recovering from acute sinusitis”, Buckingham Palace has announced. A Palace spokesman said Camilla hoped to have ...