Question

How should pediatric sinusitis be treated?

Answer

To prevent pediatric sinusitis, it’s important to focus on the following points:

  1. Children should eat a nutritious and easily digestible diet, and pay attention to supplementing various vitamins and trace elements, avoiding picky eating.
  2. Adjust clothing according to weather changes, strengthen physical exercise, enhance physical fitness, and ensure good indoor air circulation during sleep.
  3. Prevent various colds and acute infectious diseases; during outbreaks of infectious diseases, reduce outdoor activities or visits to public places.
  4. When there is enlargement of the tonsils or adenoids, appropriate treatment is required. For the treatment of acute sinusitis, anti-inflammatory drugs are needed; use antipyretics during high fever; ensure adequate rest; nasal drops containing ephedrine can be used to not only improve nasal ventilation but also facilitate sinus drainage and promote inflammation subsidence; steam inhalation through the nose is also very beneficial. The treatment for chronic sinusitis can also involve anti-inflammatory drugs and nasal drops, and sometimes other special therapies may be necessary. These include nasal decongestive therapy and sinus puncture, among others.