Preserved Topic: Evil Sinuses

No, not the math ones!

Some of you have been at this 'living' thing longer than I have.
Maybe you have discovered a cure for an inflamed sinus (inflamed sini?)?
Please share,
my head feels like the front side is gonna fall off.

Thank you,

Tyberius Prime

I use one or more of the following:

1) Massive amounts of vitamin B complex and vitamin C (1 gram every half hour).

2) hot peppers and butter on bread. (I have no idea why this works and it may only work for me. I've never heard of anyone else using it)

3) 1/2 teaspoon of powdered clove, 1/2 teaspoon of chili pepper, 1 tablespoon of tobasco sause. Mix together and add water to taste (Some people add lots of water to dilute the taste. I add very little so I can drink it quickly) Drink the mixture and follow with water and vitamin C.

The other thing you can do to avoid sinus headaches is to avoid foods containing milk (chease, icecream, milk, etc), sugar, or cafine. Also peanutbutter.


Hope you feel better soon. I know how miserable sinus headaches can make you feel.




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(chease, icecream, milk, etc), sugar, or cafine.

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Add a little chicken and you just described my diet.

Boil some water and put your face in the rising steam to losen up all nastiness up in there

The Emperor Way: Large amounts of water and rest and hit it as hard as you can with decongestants - tablet form (like Sinutab) and hot steam (like Karvol). The key is to get it as early and as hard as possible - like life.

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I use antibiotic.
Jogging is also very good to help "clean" the face.

You have my complete sympathy. I've been fighting that stuff for years.

Cayenne pepper in all your food helps to open the sinuses. (That's probably why the pepper & butter on bread work - the butter and bread keep you from burning your digestive system while the peppers open your breathing passages...)

The standard OTC meds should at the very least relieve your symptoms. If this is a chronic problem, see a doctor about getting on something for prevention. I've recently started taking Astelin, a nasal spray, and it is the first thing I've ever had that actually works.

If you're really trying to go the natural way, peppermint is a decongestant. Some peppermint tea with a little honey and lemon is nice. The tea should steep for 8-10 minutes, and while it's doing so, hold the cup under your nose and breath in the vapors. The honey soothes your throat and the lemon helps break up the congestion.

When in the shower, let the hottest water you can stand just flow over your head and face. The steam also helps open up your breathing passages.

Drink lots and lots of plain ol' water - it's like a bath for your insides... just flush out all the nasty germs.

Hope you feel better soon!

Peppermint tea works real well like Bodhi23 said. Rosemary and eucalyptis steeped in boiling water makes a nice mist that will clear the head. Just don't get too close to the steam or you'll scald yourself.

If you have an infection go to a doc and get some antibiotics. Do not use over the counter medicine if you can help it. It may help your sinuses but you'll get an upper resp infection because all the mucus and germs are going down into your lungs instead of out your nose.


You are getting sleepy...sleepy. You will go to the North Wing....

Let me be more specific. If your sinusitis is of bacterial infection type, you must take antibiotics. You must see a doctor to figure out what kind of sinusitis you have. I had a serious one many many years ago, that took a long time to cure. Very recently, I had it again, but this time 10 days of antibiotics were enough. See a doctor.

unfortunately, broad spectrum antibiotics (even the very powerful ones) will often just knock back a sinus infection, rather than eliminating all the little bacteria. Ask your doctor about organism specific sulfa-drugs.

In the meantime try Hot & Sour soup and lots of Sudafed. If you need even more relief, drink lots of hot sake....

From Caroline, my wife, who at times also suffers.

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This is my recipe for relief and prevention of sinus infections.
It is a tried and true solution to relieve pain and clogged sinus'
Give it a chance, you will not be dissapointed!.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups boiled water
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. iodized salt (table salt)

Boil water and cool till just warm, add soda and salt and dissolve completely.

What you need to do next, is find a "very clean" (in other words STERILIZE IT WITH BOILING WATER) plastic mustard type container (squeeze type), with the long pointed nozzle.

Fill the container with the "recipe".

Now comes the tricky part.
You need to stand in front of the bathroom sink, with a large bowl or pail between your feet to protect the floor.
Bending "at the waist", hang your head "between" your knees, and slowly squeeze the warm solution
into one nostril, then the other. You will feel it filling your sinus' in your cheeks, and above your eyes. It feels very strange the first few times, and if you do it too fast, the solution will pour out before it has had a
chance to make its way into all of the nooks and cranny's of this very cavernous area. Flush both nostrils gently Then hang your face over the sink and rock it from side to side to help the solution and the infected mucous escape.

If you do this after any activity that inflames the sinus' ie: gardening/mowing the lawn (moulds and pollens),
sanding wood (particles), etc. you can, pretty much, avoid the infections all together.

If you use a decongestant to help rid a sinus infection, you 'may' be making it worse. The action of a
decongestant is to "dry up" the sinus area, reducing the mucous to a gluey sludge which, in turn, will
ultimatley become infected as it cannot get out of the sinus cavity. An "expectorant" is better, but if you
use the solution above, you'll be well on your way to better health ( and it's inexpensive too).

The salt aids in healing and drawing off the infection, the soda is a natural antifungal. Any one growing roses
will attest to this, as soda is used to prevent black spot(a fungus) on roses. I have a recipe for that too!

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Enjoy! Well you know what I mean. =)

I think the most important concept stated so far as that an expectorant is much much more effective than a decongestant.

Guaifenesin in particular has worked well for me. Antibiotics should be used only when absolutely necessary. They weaken your immunen system and should not be used lightly.

Saline solutions do wonders in a variety of ways.

Capsicum (the chemical component of all the hot peppers) can do fantastic things for your sinuses - just don't over do it. Your mucus membranes are sensitive things....burning them with acid is not a good thing...

Acid should be the last resort. But if the hot Sake isn't doing the trick, it just might be time to move on to hallucinogens....

at least then the pain becomes interesting.

Thanks for all your reponses!

This time, eating a bit of garlic and drinking lots of water seems to have done the trick, and least I feel a lot better.

For me, these things are a bit like the common cold. The occur at times, they spontanously disapear after a couple of days (sooner if I'm activliy fighting back), and are only source of concern when they last longer than a week (happend only once, and I took antibiotics that time).
I'll copy this list and try each of your suggestions at least once, and make a personal 'scientific' study to their effectivness. (Without the double blind test, though. I'm not gonna let this brainsplitters run their course!)

so long,

Tyberius Prime

You can actually have an operation.

They do a local anesthetic and break the bones inside your skull to make a larger hole
from your sinuses to your throat.
That way all the gunk empties quicker into your throat.

Less gunk in your sinuses but more coughing up phlegm.

Drink liquids and get a lot of vitamins and healthy food like chicken soup and stuff.


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