How to treat sinusitis in children

Sinusitis is the most common disease, affecting mainly children and adults. The group most likely to be affected is children. Because children have weaker constitutions and poorer resistance to external viruses, they are the group most susceptible to sinusitis. How to treat sinusitis in children? What methods should I use to treat children's sinusitis? This is a question worth deep thought.

The main symptoms of sinusitis are headache, dizziness, nasal congestion, and yellow purulent nasal discharge. Long-term sinusitis can affect memory, cause slower reactions, etc. There is currently no cure for sinusitis, including medication, surgery, etc. Temporary elimination of symptoms does not mean that it has been cured. Rhinitis is prone to recurrence. It is best not to use long-term medication to treat children's sinusitis, as it has side effects and dependence. You can wash your child's nose with saline, which has no side effects. The effect is slower than medication, but for rhinitis without turbinate hypertrophy and nasal polyps, insisting on washing the nose is very effective. Usually you can maintain your nasal cavity well to reduce the chance of recurrence of rhinitis.

The most important point is: saline nasal irrigation must be done in two steps. You must first rinse the nasal vestibule separately, and then rinse the deep nasal cavity. You cannot flush directly from one nostril to another or directly into the deep nasal cavity, as this will flush the dirt in the nasal vestibule directly into the deep nasal cavity. The structure of the deep nasal cavity is very complex and easily accumulates dirt (this is why some people have trouble blowing their noses), and you will flush the dirt that was originally blocked outside into the inside.

Therefore, you should also pay attention to this point when choosing a nasal rinse tool for saline nasal irrigation. The method that does not distinguish between the two steps of saline nasal irrigation and simply enters from one nostril and exits from the other is absolutely not advisable.

In addition: Tools for washing the nose with saline, whether simple or complex, such as electric ones, must have a Class II medical device number to be sold on the market, and their safety and effectiveness must be guaranteed before they can be used with confidence. Therefore, you should keep your eyes open when choosing specific products to avoid being deceived. I hope my child can get rid of sinusitis as soon as possible!

As we said above, children have weaker constitutions, so we should try to reduce the use of drugs to treat pediatric sinusitis. So besides drug treatment of pediatric sinusitis, are there other methods? In fact, there are many ways to treat children's sinusitis in our lives, but we don't pay attention to these methods and rarely use them. How to treat sinusitis in children? The method we choose is to frequently use salt water to clean the child's nose. This will help treat sinusitis over time.