Saturday, March 29, 2008

There are differences between rhinitis and sinusitis?

Rhinitis and sinusitis are common nasal diseases, Both acute and chronic distinction. Speaking from anatomy, nostril before and after nasal cavity is between a ventilation lacunar, a nasal nasal cavity surface coverage, nasal inflammation is rhinitis, and nasal sinus is around the skull and face the gas-bearing bone cavity, symmetrical total of four pairs, which are maxillary, frontal, ethmoid and sphenoid sinus, each have a sinus and nasal sinus linked to the mouth, through the sinus mouth, nasal mucosa and sinus mucosa within the mutual renewal. We normally say the cold cold, that is not ventilation nose, sneezing, nose-flow, decreased sense of smell is acute rhinitis performance. In acute rhinitis, if treated properly, through nasal sinus inflammation can spread to the sinus openings to sinus mucosa acute inflammation, acute sinusitis is the main symptom is not the nose ventilation, discharging the nose and headache. If acute rhinitis and acute sinusitis repeated attacks, the final form of chronic rhinitis and can be chronic sinusitis. The symptoms of chronic rhinitis is not the nose ventilation or turn in the two nostrils and poor ventilation, mucus of the nose.
While chronic sinusitis is often flow white glaze nose, after a cold flow yellow purulent rhinorrhea, and the sense of smell diminish. On the previous period, rhinitis and sinusitis is closely related to their disease, but clinical manifestations vary, inspection findings also differentiated.

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