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...deal with routine complaints like ear infections or sinus infections," he says. "We occasionally see some trauma, like someone coming in after they've been hit over the head with a beer bottle...
...Embrace that post-nasal drip because February is Sinus Pain Awareness Month. The holiday winds down...
...down that Kleenex. A study released Friday at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Francisco says that nose blowing may prolong and even worsen a cold. Researchers at the University of Virginia had healthy volunteers blow their noses and measured the pressure inside the subjects? sinus cavities. They found that nose blowing creates an enormous amount of internal pressure - a force that can drive mucus streaming with bacteria and viruses back into the sinuses, possibly making a cold worse...
...only cancer that can be at the root of fatigue. The sense that you're run down all the time can signal a host of undetected ailments, from gum disease and sinus infection to anemia and multiple sclerosis. Not every ailment can be cured, but many can be treated...
...Frequent upper-respiratory infections--colds, strep throat, middle-ear and sinus infections--may be a sign of undiagnosed allergy. One of the ways the body responds to the tiny particles that trigger allergies is by producing mucus, which turns out to be a terrific medium for trapping and growing viruses and bacteria. Getting rid of the mucus, which means identifying and treating the allergy, makes it much less likely that you will catch those germs in the first place. As a general rule, infants who suffer more than six upper-respiratory infections a year, and school-age children and adults...