More Than Just a Stuffy Nose

Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

Medgeeks

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

With the holiday season in full swing, it also comes with more people getting sick and getting sinus infections. The specific sinus infection that we will discuss is rhinosinusitis, which is an inflammation of the lining of the sinuses and the nasal cavity. It can be caused by a variety of factors, including allergies, infections and structural abnormalities.

We will go over the four different types of rhinosinusitis: acute, subacute, chronic and recurrent acute. Next, is the symptoms your patient will present with such as facial pain, nasal congestion and loss of smell. The different treatments that you can offer are over-the-counter medications, antibiotics and nasal corticosteroids.

Join Dr. Niket Sonpal as he helps us understand and manage rhinosinusitis.

December 11, 2023

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0:00.0	Winter is in the air and with that brings about a lot of change in the air.
0:03.4	The first is that it's cool and crisp outside.
0:06.2	It's the holiday season and cheer abound.
0:09.1	But with that also comes a few other things.
0:12.0	That's right, with the winter comes winter illnesses.
0:15.5	And because of that, we're going to be discussing a topic this week
0:18.4	that actually one in seven or eight people in the United States
0:22.4	will have an episode of each year.
0:24.4	What we're going to be talking about is rhinocytitis.
0:27.8	It's a disorder that occurs and an infection that occurs
0:30.6	of an inflammation of the nasal cavity and
0:32.8	paranesal sinuses that usually lasts for under four weeks.
0:37.1	So join me, Dr. Nachete-Sonpala,
0:39.1	we talk about acute rhinocinocinocitis and sinusitis in addition to things like flu, respiratory illnesses,
0:46.6	RSV and of course COVID-19 here's another common thing that's going to walk in your
0:51.5	door in your clinic. So cue that music and let's going to walk in your door in your clinic.
0:52.6	So cue that music and let's get to it. Now the first thing you talk about when it comes to acute rhinositis is going to
1:10.6	be terminology. A lot of patients will tell you I have sinusitis, but really it's actually rhinocinusitis in that it's affecting
1:17.7	the sinuses as well as the nasal mucosa. They go hand in hand and they're never without one another.
1:23.0	And there are four types.
1:25.0	There is acute in which it lasts for less than four weeks.
1:28.0	They're subacute, where the symptoms last for four to twelve weeks.
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