Frontitis: Symptoms and Treatment of Disease

Frontite is a disease in which the membranes of the frontal sinuses become inflamed. There is a frontitis is not too often, for example, compared with sinusitis, but the effects of the front, and the very course of the disease are more painful for the patient and threaten with dangerous complications.

If a person is diagnosed with a frontitis, the causes of the disease should be sought primarily in the nose. Most often, any infection gets on the mucous membranes of the nose and mouth, and so the frontite spreads exactly in a rhinogenic way. In the presence of chronic sinusitis, the frontitis threatens to a large extent, but even those who have never suffered from sinusitis can become victims of acute frontitis. Immunity plays a big role here - if it is weakened, then the infection spreads easily above the nasal sinuses, and then the front is inevitable. Most often in people with strong immunity, the infection does not go up, but is transferred in the form of rhinitis. Frontite, the symptoms of which are not treated, threatens with relapses and chronic course.

Among the causes of the frontitis, factors that contribute to the development of the disease play an important role. These include pathology of the nasal septum, hypertrophic changes in the nasal concha, the presence of growths (polyps) in the nasal passages. If there are polyps, then they break the normal outflow of mucus and, stagnating, can give infection by an ascending type.

Another way, which is described in the medical literature, is hematogenous, but cases of appearance of the frontitis are rare for this reason.

The symptoms of the frontitis are very obvious, and they give patients considerable suffering. If the patients acute acute gait, the symptoms of general intoxication will not keep you waiting. Naturally, they are observed with any infectious disease, but with front, there are specific local signs. It is these signs that make it possible to diagnose the disease almost unerringly. These include:

• The strongest headache. It is localized in the frontal region at the sites of the frontal sinuses. Patients point this out as a place over the entire eyebrow to the temple. The pain symptom is enhanced by tilting the head forward, touching or pressing on the forehead. Usually patients take a recumbent position, almost do not move, because any movement of the head brings them extreme suffering.
• Nasal breathing was disturbed in patients with the frontitis. The mucous membrane of the nose swells, the upper sinuses are laid. In them, as a rule, the mucus that caused infection becomes stagnant (and then swallowed).
• Absence or significant decrease in smell.
• Irritant reaction to light, signs of mild conjunctivitis.

Most patients prefer conservative treatment of the frontitis, although surgical intervention may still be required.

Conservative treatment includes several groups of drugs that must necessarily be used for a successful outcome. First of all, it is antibacterial drugs that are injected intramuscularly. The second group for topical application is nose spray for vasoconstriction, decongestants and antihistamines. Usually, this complex helps not only to remove the symptoms of the frontitis, but also to regulate the outflow of the purulent discharge, which greatly facilitates the process of convalescence.

If you have started to treat the frontitis, the symptoms do not disappear, then surgical treatment is indicated. The essence of the operative method consists in puncturing under local anesthesia of the frontal sinus, extracting pus from there and introducing a drug substance. Such an intervention is quite unpleasant for the patient, moreover, a scar remains at the puncture site.

Therefore, it is better to treat the frontitis in a timely manner. Symptoms of the disease should not be left out of the patient's attention. When the first signs appear, you need to go to the hospital to start treatment as soon as possible and avoid surgery.