One of the most common complications >>...

Sinusitis? Antibiotics do not help

December 4, 2007 - neither antibiotics nor steroid sprays offer much help

adults with sinus, a British study shows. One of the most common complications >> << flu or sinus infections. >> <<: Stuffy nose, thick, dark bow

discharge, and head. You very likely had such an infection. And if, like 25 million other Americans

, You went to the doctor U.S. is 90% chance that you have to order

antibiotics. You very likely have some side effects from antibiotics. But it

extremely unlikely antibiotics you took were very helpful, by stomping

research Ian G. Williamson, MD, senior lecturer at the University

Southampton buy strattera online, England. "We believe that if the action of antibiotics on acute sinus

This is not very big - certainly not as big as people

forced to believe," Williamson said WebMD. Williamson and his colleagues studied 240 patients aged 16 years and older whose symptoms

suggested that they had sinus infection caused by bacteria. Viruses

cause nasal sinuses, but antibiotics do not help viral infections. OISDP, antibiotics are often used for bacterial sinusitis

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wit h or without nasal spray steroids. >> << A quarter of patients received no treatment at all, but just inactive placebo pills >> << and placebo sprays. In ten days, patients who did not receive active treatment were equally likely

cure in patients who received antibiotics. Steroid nasal sprays made little difference >> << though they seemed to help people with very mild nasal congestion >> << and seemed to make things a little worse for those who very intense nasal congestion >>. << Williamson says the study does not definitively rule out a small >> << action of antibiotics. But the effect is very small. "In three weeks of illness - when symptoms are not so bad - will be

side effects of prolonged course of antibiotics cost less

disease day we generally think antibiotics have enough? little effect if there is no

at all, "says Williamson. Ten years ago, carefully controlled study of Norwegian

expert Morten Lindbaeck, MD, PhD, for

University of Oslo showed that antibiotics were found to influence bacterial

sinuses - but this effect is relatively modest. "Even in these cases is very strict with the high probability that patients

was very difficult bacterial infections, more than half of the patients were healthy >> << to 10 days", Lindbaeck WebMD. "Even if you have a real bacterial infection >> <<, most of the time you get and without antibiotics."

What about people who are not better? It remains a question. "If they come to me and say," I was sick for seven days and feel

very bad, and there is, "I start antibiotics immediately. But it

few "Lindbaek said. "The vast majority of patients with sinus infections

not too bad. They feel pain, they are suffocating, they do not feel

well enough to go to work, but they are not too bad. " .