Children sinusitis, symptoms of weight than adults

Sinusitis in children and adults similar to clinical manifestations of sinusitis can also be divided into two types of acute and chronic, but the symptoms of sinusitis in children than adult heart.

(1) Acute sinusitis:

① incidence of acute sinusitis compared with acute symptoms of headache in adults mainly dominated the children’s Zeyi systemic symptoms. Manifested as high fever, dehydration, lack of energy, shortness of breath, poor feeding, severe cases will appear irritability, convulsions. Respiratory tract infections are often accompanied by symptoms such as sore throat, cough, most children will not be an accurate description, symptoms, and will not blow his nose, which often fell nose into the trachea, bronchus, causing aspiration pneumonia.

② children may have nasal congestion, purulent nasal discharge and so on one or both sides of the stream of local symptoms, while older children can tell the headache characteristics; such as when suffering from frontal sinusitis, headache in the morning to get up and heavier in the afternoon light, and sometimes forehead feel pain, coughing or blowing his nose when the pain worsened significantly when checking frontal sinus tenderness, and some children, then v. toothache or pain in the side of the cheek.

③ pediatric anterior frontal bone thin, in acute maxillary sinusitis can occur from time to time the affected side of cheek swelling; acute frontal sinusitis symptoms similar to adults in general, if a serious infection may invade the eyes causing conjunctivas edema, eye and therefore downward shift; acute ethmoid sinus inflammation when the local symptom most apparent. Such as serious infections, the Department may have redness and swelling inside the canthus. Children with acute sinusitis can sometimes be associated with acute otitis media, maxillary osteomyelitis, bloody nose or joint pain.

(2) Chronic sinusitis:

① local symptoms: There are intermittent or recurrent nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea with sticky purulent or mucus in nature, often trailer on the upper lip. Sometimes postnasal dripping into the throat, there was no runny nose symptoms. Sometimes, there may be epistaxis, or nasal vestibular symptoms such as eczema nasolabial fold flushing, erosion, exudate. Headache, and low barriers to see the sense of smell.

② systemic symptoms: children may have mental apathetic, or irritability, poor appetite, emaciation, stunted growth, low heat and so on, due to purulent nasal secretions back indecent or ingested, children can be expressed as cough and nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders.

③ concurrent or following symptoms: nasal obstruction due to recurrent, pediatric mouth breathing, long-term this will affect the cheek and chest development; child development has not yet fully, sinusitis, infections spread easily, and inflammation, and invasion of adjacent organs can lead to maxillary bone marrow inflammation, laryngitis, chronic otitis media, cervical lymphadenopathy, conjunctivitis, dacryocystitis, etc.; due to throat protection is poor, easy to choke secretions into the trachea, bronchus Erzhi lower respiratory tract infection. Chronic sinusitis may also occur secondary anemia, rheumatism, joint pain, gastrointestinal or kidney disease, easy to colds and Cullen abdominal pain.