I am suffering from very bad sinus problems any suggestions?!
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I am suffering from very bad sinus problems any suggestions?
Answers: Try putting warn salty in a dropper. Tilt your head back & drop some in your nose & let it run into your throat. If you swallow a little, it will not hurt you. The saline solution will not only shrink your membranes so your nose can drain, but it will clean all the areas it passes through. It helps heal as well.
You can do this as often as you need to, but you won't have to do it for long! It's great. Hope you feel better. Source(s):
Experience. Go to pharmacy. Buy some sinus meds, like Sudaphed. sinutab or sudafed, can get them from any major supermarket!! You could try over the counter meds, like Sudafed, but having tried that and it didn't get rid of it completely i went to doctor in the end and got antibiotics which according to the GP i should have done in the first place. I have information about a therapy that has been very effective, I would be happy to send it to you. My recommendation will be a cup of hot tea with ginger slices in it... it soothes. The number one top thing you can do is lavage your nose with saline. You can make your own by using 1/8 teaspoon of salt per 8 oz (cup), boiling it 3 minutes, letting it cool to room temp and using it often as you wish to rinse your nose passages. It will reduce inflammation, has no side effects, and will wash out allergens that may be making things worse.
If your sinus drainage is bloody, see a doctor for an antibiotic.
Consider an anti-histamine such as Claritin (generic is fine and cheaper) available over the counter and a decongestant also available at the drug store.
Drink plenty, make sure you have moisture in the air of your house, especially where you sleep (a cool mist humidifier is good).
Consider an air cleaner for your bedroom to reduce air irritants.
And lastly consider an anti-inflammatory medication like ibuprofen, as directed.
Warm, moist clothes applied over the face can help as well.
You can buy Saline mist at the drug store for $3, then refill the bottle with your own as described above. Use it often.
Sleep with your head elevated to promote drainage.
If none of that is helpful after a week, see a doctor and consider a nasal steroid spray such as Flonase or Rhinocort, available with a prescription and Allegra.
I like the saline wash the best because it does nothing more than help, is proven as effective as prescription nasal steroid sprays, and has no adverse effects.
Good luck. Hope this helps. Avoid alcohol
Get enough sleep
Whatever medication you use (herbal: ecinacea, liquorice, goldenseal or nettle are supposed to be good - easy on the ecinacea) lie on a surface where you can tip your head back and stay there for five to ten minutes (eg over the side of a bed). This might help drain your sinuses and relieve some of the pressure. Olbas oil, its great!!!!!! Blocked sinuses or not.... Use some FESS nasal spray
works wonders =) call your doctor as he can recommened something for you. The herb of choice for sinus issues is Ground Ivy (aka creeping charlie). I usually recommend it in Tincture form. The suggestion for saline nasal spray is right on. Works very well. May also want to use alternating hot/cold compresses. This will help both with getting the sinuses to drain & shrink. As for the pain/pressure, what you want is an anti-inflammitory, such as white willow bark. Using a steam vaporizor with a small amount of camphor will help too, or just a bowl of boiled water with a VERY SMALL amount of camphor or the less harsh eucaliptus, cover your head with a towel over the bowl and let it do it's thing. Good luck! Sinus problems really stink! Hope you feel better soon! reflexology is a very good complementary therapy for this condition. The nurse has the right idea with the nasal lavage. It can help clear and heal the sinuses without the harmful side effects that every pharmaceutical has.
For this I recommend about 1/2 to 1 teaspoon sea salt in a neti pot of warm water. Neti pots can be found at most health food stores and at whole foods. They can also be purchased on line.
I have struggled with sinus issued my entire life and have found the neti pot the most effective solution and the least uncomfortable way to flush the sunuses.
It is just a little pot that looks a bit like Alladin's lamp. You gently pour the water up one nostril tipping your head foreward until it comes out the other nostril, repeat on the other side. Buy some sinus medication (Sinutab in the UK). Nothing else will help unfortunately. HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT(s) FOR SINUSITIS / HEADACHES / MIGRAINES (Without any side effects or complications) :-
SINUSITIS :-
Right sided frontal sinusitis; discharge thick, yellowish; worse by cold,damp and exertion Penicillinum 30X or 200X, 6 hourly
Sinusitis after mastoid operation Helka lava 3X or 6X, 4 hourly
In acute or chronic sinusitis; catarrh with stringy discharge Kali Bich 30X 4 hourly
Tearing pain in head; from root of nose, extending to forehead with nausea; dryness of mucous passages Natrum Mur 30X, 4 hourly
Pain begins at the back of head and settles over the eyes; worse under a fan Silicea 1M, weekly (6 Doses)
Chronic cold with loss of smell and yellow green phlegm; better in cool, open air Pulsatilla 30X or 200X 4 hourly
Intercurrent remedy Bacillinum 200X or 1M fortnightly (3 Doses)
Complaints worse early morning; aversion to take bath Sulphur 200X weekly (3 Doses)
HEADACHE :-
With constant nausea; clean tongue Ipecac 30X, 3 hourly
With severe throbbing and rush of blood towards head Belladonna 30X, 3 hourly
Due to over eating; stomach disorders; tongue thickly whitish coated; worse bathing specially after river bathing Antim Crud 30X or 200 4 hourly(3 Doses)
Due to exposure to dry, cold wind; sudden with anxiety Aconite Nap.30X or 200X, 1/2 hourly (3 Doses)
With watering of eyes and sensitiveness to bright light Euphrasia 30X, 3 hourly
Headache; better by bending backwards; due to nerve injury Hypericum 30X, 3 hourly
Headache with humming in ears; due to nervous weakness Kali Phos.6X or 30X, 3 hourly
Hammering headache; worse during menstrual cycle going in sun; school girls head ache, Natrum Mur.30X or 200X, 4 hourly
Headache starts from nape of neck and shift over to the head; patient desires to lie down quietly; better passing urine Gelsemium 30X or 200X, 3 hourly
Violent headache due to working under gas light; sun-stroke Glonoine 6X or 30X, 2 hourly
Bursting headache; worse by stooping and movements; excessive thirst and constipation Bryonia 30X or 200X, 3 hourly (6 Doses)
Nervous headache; after grief, disappointment; worse inhaling smoke Ignatia 200X or 1M, 3 hourly (3 Doses)
Headache; due to sinusitis, pressure and pain at the root of nose Kali Bich 30X, 4 hourly
Due to eating rich fatty food, loss of thirst, better in open cold air Pulsatilla 30X, 4 hourly
Due to eye strain; disturbances of accomodation of eye sight Ruta Grav 30X, 4 hourly
After taking alcoholic drinks; sedentary habits; chilly patient Nux Vomica 30X, 4 hourly
Sun haedcahe; aggravation from sun rise to sunset; from cardiac origin Kalmia Lat.30X or 200X, 6 hourly
Of school children; crushing headache, pressure on top of head Acid Phos 30, 4 hourly
Headache localised; at the nape of neck; worse by walking and noise Pneumococcin 200X, 10 min (3 Doses)
Frontal headache; neuralgic pain above and behind the right eye; heaviness of head. Better by rest, lying down and eating Penicillinum 30X or 200X, 10 min (3 Doses)
Headache worse early morning;empty gone sensation at 10 -11 A.M. Sulphur 200X or 1M, weekly (3 Doses)
MIGRAINES :-
From mental work; cold, uncovering head, pressure, sitting upright or sun-stroke Glonoinum 30X, 3 hourly
For nervous, gastric, bilious individuals. Migraine due to mental over exertion in teachers and students. Right sided, specially Sunday migraine, blurred vision, hemiopia; blindness; often burning pain in entire gastro-intestinal tract with violent acid vomiting at the height of attack; worse hot weather; spring and fall; better after vomiting or sufficient night sleep Iris v.200X or above, 10 min (3 Doses)
For irritable hypochondriacs of bad temper; cholerics, neuropathics; from abuse of alcohol, coffee, spices, tobacco, vexation and worry, mental over exertion, business worries, sexual excesses, sedentary habits, cold dry air and winds Nux Vomica 30X or 200X, 4 hourly
For pronounced vasomotor individuals (irritable and full of fear) during pre-climacteric and menopausal stage.Tired expression, head congestion, circumscribed red cheeks; pain above right eye, throbbing, stitching, rhythmic pain, often in every 8 days, early morning, beginning in nape, extending upwards, locating in the region of eye, rising and falling with the sun; sensation of heavy congestion Sanguinaria C 200X, 10 min (3 Doses)
For weak, fat and irritable patient; often apathetic, changing moods, strange changes of character (egocenteric), memory weak, due to disturbance during climacteric period, results of tobacco abuse. Person with shallow complexion, yellow saddle across the nose; pain located on left temple; throbbing, stitching pains Sepia 200X, 10 min (3 Doses)
For neuropathic persons, full of fear caused by noises, change of weather or worms; with face pale, located above left eye; specially left pupil (ciliary neuralgia); sharp, shooting, tearing, stitching, periodical pain from occiput to left eye; slowly rising in intensity with sun. Bile vomiting at the height of attack, slowly improving with setting sun. Feeling as if head were open along sagittal suture Spigelia 200X or 1M, 10 min (3 Doses)
Left sided; worse during and after sleep; before menstruation; heat; during menopause Lachesis 200X or 1M, 10 min (3 Doses)
Intercurrent remedy Bacillinum 200X or 1M, fortnightly (3 Doses) .
Take the remedy which is similar to your symptoms.
No side effects or complications if taken as directed, please do not exceed the given dosage and under any circumstances do not try to mix any remedies and avoid Chocolates, Mints, Coffee, Red Meat, Alcoholic and Carbonated drinks, Spicy Rich Food while taking any Homeopathic remedies, and keep the medicines away from direct sunlight, heat strong smells and perfumes and do not store them in the fridge.
Curing without any side effects or Complications Thats the Beauty of Homeopathic Medicine
Feel free to email me if you do not understand anything or if you want to discuss anything.
Take Care and God Bless you ! There's a peoduct called SinU Support, which is supposed to be very good, please see lnk for further info:
http://www.whatreallyworks.co.uk/start/q...
PS. Also please results for suggested alternative remedies sinuses at the end of this page (Q&A):
http://www.whatreallyworks.co.uk/start/s... Your question certainly brought back memories. Some years ago now in the early nineties, I was having serious nasal problems and was refered to a ENT specialist, who had a look and a feel at it. He decided that I needed an operation to clear the blockage. A few weeks later I went into hospital and the next morning I had my operation, which went very well. Of course my nose was all sort of strapped up with a plastic thing over it to keep it straight and I was told to come back the following week but to keep the plastic on. Off I went and the following week I duly turned up and the same specialist attended me. He peeled the sticky plaster off and then lifted off the plastic fitting and gazed at my nose. Lovely he said perfect, it could'nt be better., and he handed me a mirror. When I looked in the mirror, to my astonishment I hardly recognised myself. He had straightened my badly broken nose, which incidentally had been the product of a meeting with a police baton many years before, and, he had shaved the bump I had on the bridge, making it perfectly straight. You must realise how I felt, I'd only came in for a regular NHS nasal clearance, and this guy has gone and given me the full monty. I was over the moon.
It was'nt until I got home, had my tea, and picked up the paper to have a read. My glasses would'nt stay on, he had made my nose too straight. I now have to use a bit of sticking plaster to keep my glasses on. Do you think I have a claim for compensation. Forget about nasal sprays and antibiotics as they only give you a bit of short term relief without overcoming the real problem of overactive mucus glands. Nasal sprays can actually damage your sinuses.
Switching from mucus generating dairy products and red meat to soy milk and white meat certainly helps. Fish is better than chicken.
Taking 3 to 6 high strength odourless 3,000 mg garlic oil capsules every day also helps. This will also help to boost your immune system and it will also help to reduce your high blood pressure and high cholesterol if you suffer from those problems. Rather than using meds, why not try the Neti Potty first, it is used to clear out your sinus's and works great.
Dr. Oz on Oprah says that most times the Neti Potty works better than medication and it's not uncomfortable to use, in fact it feels nice.
You can buy one at any health food store, or most pharmacies.