Sinusitis Treatment
Sinusitis is a bacterial infection and must be treated with an antibiotic. Your doctor will have to examine you and give you a prescription for the appropriate antibiotic.
Sinusitis Treatment does not mean that all the symptoms will go away immediately, you may also have to use a nasal spray or other decongestant medications to aid in relieving the symptoms until the infection is gone.
While you are taking the antibiotic, you may begin to feel better and this is where many people go wrong, they stop taking the medicine because they feel better. If you do not take all of the antibiotic that is prescribed you may still have the bacteria that caused sinusitis hiding in your sinus cavities. Your doctor has prescribed the exact amount of antibiotic for your body to rid it of the infection and the bacteria that caused the infection.
Another important reason to take all the medication that is prescribed is that your body can build up an antibiotic resistance, which can cause you all kinds of problems. If your body, builds up a resistance to the antibiotic then it will no longer work against infection and you will have to try several different antibiotics for sinusitis treatment.
Antibiotics are either broad-spectrum or narrow-spectrum. Narrow-spectrum antibiotics work to fight off a few types of bacteria while broad-spectrum is used to against a wide range of bacteria. Broad-spectrum antibiotics are usually the drugs that many people build up resistance. Because of this, you will more than likely be given a prescription for a narrow-spectrum antibiotic, unless the infection is not clearing up and then he may try a broad-spectrum antibiotic.
For acute sinusitis treatment, many doctors prescribe amoxicillin, doxycycline or trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. These antibiotics seem to work best in patients that have persistent nasal discharge and pain or tenderness around their eyes and cheekbones. This sinusitis treatment also works well with individuals where symptoms do not improve in seven days or if they have symptoms of rhiosinusitis.
For chronic sinusitis treatment, the treatment is basically the same only for an extended period of time. Along with the antibiotic therapy, several doctors also prescribe decongestants. Chronic sinusitis is hard to treat, in cases where antibiotics are not working, other measures may be taken such as desensitization, allergy tests, and in a few cases, surgery is advised.
In children, sinusitis treatment is once again a therapy of amoxicillin. However, in cases where amoxicillin is not working against the infection trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and erythromycin-sulfisoxazole may be given.