The only thing that helped stop my sinus infections was acupuncture. I used to get them all the time but after the acupuncture it was years before I got another one and it that was it.
The only thing that helped stop my sinus infections was acupuncture. I used to get them all the time but after the acupuncture it was years before I got another one and it that was it.
You could have allergies that are triggering your infections or you could not be fully treating the infection. I went a year or two with sinus infection after sinus infection. I was eventually diagnosed with chronic sinusitis that was a result of my allergies. My magic "cure" for the actual infection was a shot of cortisone and Avelox, a very strong antibiotic. Then they had to get my allergies under control. Once they were, my infections went away. I still get a few here and there, but can usually get rid of it with my Neil Med rinse bottle, as mentioned in a pp.
If you have allergies they could be causing your nasal passages to swell, which then results in the bacteria getting trapped causing the infection. I also had a friend who was getting infections frequently and she had polyps that were causing the infection to get trapped.
ugh. i've had two so far this year and they were both doozies...i feel your pain
i use a neti pot every single day, even when not sick. usually once. some times morning and night. and when i'm sick i do it much more often.
obviously, i'm not all that great an example of a rousing success since i'm using it each day and still got sick twice. but i do believe it could have been even more frequently b/c DS has been sick basically non-stop since late oct. so...in reality, i feel like the preventive neti pot use has been helpful to some degree
i hope you feel better
and i'm going to look into that grapefruit nasal spray too...intrigued
mama to my awesome sporty boy (4/09) , precocious little girl (7/12) , and loving doggies (10/05 & 1/14)
bad sinus infections from sept- march and it ended up that it was few bad ones that i truly never got over. it took a 28 day course of antibiotics and prednisone to completely clear it.
i start Neil med rinses as soon as i feel a little pressure now.
Yup, that is the one. iherb.com has a bunch of reviews too. I used to waste a lot of money on saline sprays and one bottle of this lasts a month ++ and is a lot less messy than a neti pot. The spray is super fine and it doesn't take much to clear the gunk out. It may burn a little, but it is worth it IMO. Just be sure to have some tissues handy when you use it.
Going thru similar situation here. I would also add mucinex maximum strenght to help thin out the mucus. It makes a big differenc
Feel better soon
Maggie
dd 12/06
I have no personal experience using it, but if I was getting recurrent sinus infections one thing I might consider would be a xylitol nasal spray. Just like xylitol can help kill off the nasty strep mutans bacteria that cause tooth decay, the xylitol nasal spray supposedly can kill off the bacteria. I haven't looked into studies on it (I am familiar with the studies on tooth decay prevention), but maybe it would be worth investigating?
http://www.xlear.com/nasal-spray.aspx
eta: here's one study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21994147
Last edited by brittone2; 02-18-2012 at 09:53 PM.
Mama to DS-2004
DD-2006
and a new addition-ds born march 2010
I'm on sinus infection #2 here. Last time, I used the Xlear and think it helped. I should have kept using it, but I got nervous that I might re-infect myself by using the same bottle. I think I'm going to also try that grapefruit extract.
I've tried the neti pot with my sinus infections, but mine are invariably bacterial and I start running a high fever at some point. They don't go away without anti-biotics, even though we tried really hard for it not to be that way.