When doctors recommend breathing only through your nose, they have every reason to do so. The thing is, that physiological breathing is only possible through the nose. After all, the inhaled air, passing through the nasal cavity, cleans, moisturizes, warms or cools. This is where the vast majority of bacteria and viruses are retained.
Therefore, human health and quality of life directly depend on the quality of the nose. However, in various unfavorable situations, diseases, infections, inflammation develops mucous membrane of the sinuses - bony cavity structures around the nasal cavity. When the nose works properly, it produces mucus, along with which bacteria and the viruses enter the aggressive acidic environment of the stomach and die.
But it happens that the mucous surface of the nasal sinuses becomes inflamed, and then develops sinusitis. This often happens due to a runny nose, or as a complication after acute respiratory viral infection or influenza. The cause of inflammation can also be a curved nasal septum, adenoids and even damage to the upper chewing teeth.
Types of sinusitis
Human beings have four paired paranasal sinuses. Depending on where the inflammation appears, there are:
- Maxillary sinusitis is the most common type of sinusitis, caused by inflammation of the mucous membrane of the maxillary (maxillary) sinuses.
- Frontitis is inflammation of the frontal sinus.
- Ethmoiditis is an acute or chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the sinuses of the ethmoid labyrinth located in the bridge of the nose.
- Sphenoiditis – inflammation of the sphenoid sinuses.
With inappropriate treatment, pansinusitis may develop - simultaneous inflammation of all sinuses.
