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| Top 8 Signs of Sinus Infections |
1. Sinus headache
Sinuses are air-filled cavities (spaces) located in your forehead, cheekbones, and behind the bridge of your nose. The sinuses drain through channels in the nose. When a sinus becomes inflamed, usually as the result of an allergic reaction, a tumor, or an infection, the inflammation causes swelling and increased mucus production and the channels can become blocked. The increased pressure in the sinuses causes a pain similar to that of a headache.
2. Facial tenderness
Face pain is pain felt in any part of the face, including the mouth and eyes. Although it is normally caused by an injury or headache, facial pain may also be caused by a serious medical condition. Most causes of facial pain are harmless. However, if you have facial pain that seems to come without any known cause, call your doctor for evaluation.
3. Pressure or pain in the sinuses, in the ears and teeth.
What’s actually causing that stuffed up feeling? When you’ve got a cold or allergies, the membranes lining your nasal passages become inflamed and irritated. They begin to produce excess mucus as a way of flushing out whatever is causing the irritation, such as an allergen. When you’re stuffed up, you need to focus on keeping your nasal passages and sinuses moist. Although people sometimes think that dry air might help clear up a relentlessly runny nose, it actually has the opposite effect. Drying out the membranes will irritate them further.
4. Fever.
A fever is also known as a high fever or a high temperature. This infection is not by itself an illness. It's usually a symptom of an underlying condition, most often an infection.Fever is usually associated with physical discomfort, and most people feel better when a fever is treated. But depending on your age, physical condition, and the underlying cause of your fever, you may or may not require medical treatment for the fever alone. Many experts believe that fever is a natural bodily defense against infection. There are also many non-infectious causes of fever.
5. Cloudy discolored nasal or postnasal drainage.
Post nasal drip refers to that sensation of having excess secretions (either thick or thin) drip down the back of your throat. There are glands lining your mucous membranes that produces a large amount secretions per day to help humidify the air you breathe and to trap foreign substances from entering the respiratory system. Normally, healthy humans produce up to 2 quarts of mucus per day, some of this mucus get swallowed unconsciously. When the mucus membranes become inflamed, usually due bacteria and viruses, they become swollen extending into the sinuses, causing congestion and poor drainage. When drainage is impaired, mucus may accumulate in one spot and thicken. As mucus forces its way out of the sinuses and nasal passages, it drips down the back of the throat.
Usually sinusitis, colds, allergies and other upper respiratory disorders are followed by post nasal drip. When you have sinusitis, your sinuses become swollen and the free flow of mucus and air via the ostium becomes blocked. Mucus collects in the sinuses causing further irritation, while the mucus production in the mucous membrane continues.
7. Sore throat.
Sore throat is a condition marked by pain in the throat, typically caused by inflammation due to a cold or other viruses.
8. Cough.
is often triggered by mucus that drains down the back of the throat. Infections. An infection of the lungs or upper airway passages can cause a cough. A productive cough may be a symptom of pneumonia, bronchitis, sinusitis, or tuberculosis. Chronic lung disease.
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