One of the most difficult forms of continuing sinusitis doctors believe ethmoiditis - inflammation of the ethmoid cells (which it shares space in the nose and the skull of a man).
This disease can also be caused by:
- a variety of viral and bacterial infections;
- chronic forms of otitis, tonsillitis, evstaheita;
- problems with teeth;
- nose and jaw injuries.
symptoms etmoidita
This type of sinusitis distinguishes "eye" symptoms, because the ethmoid bone is very close from the orbital area. Therefore, patients are watering eyes, blush, suffering from cramps and itching. In addition, ethmoiditis often (almost always) accompanied by anosmia (loss of smell).
The period of the disease is possible soft tissue swelling in the area of inflammation (possibly even narrowing canthus), and pain in the eye orbits (one or both). When complications bulging eyeball, there is strabismus and limited mobility vision. The sense of smell is almost always lost when ethmoiditis up to complete non-perception of odors.
In combination with other sinusitis this kind almost every time takes the form of "poly", that is, against the background of sinusitis, sinusitis or sfenoidita. In the chronic form there polypous neoplasms in the cavities of the ethmoid bone.
danger etmoidita
So, for this form of sinusitis is characterized by "orbit" of damage, including the development of inflammation directly into the bone (osteitis, osteomyelitis) and the transition to the eye infection that can lead to blindness.
Other complications of ethmoiditis may be:
- cysts;
- septic during the transition to mater (meningitis, etc.).
Chronic etmoidit able to trigger the development of asthma, endo- and pericarditis, other systemic pathologies.
And although the risk of more severe complications when ethmoiditis is minimal, but it is still possible, especially for those who have a history of injuries and diseases of the paranasal area.
Ethmoiditis to diagnose, a biopsy is needed - especially if polyps have formed. A fairly accurate picture of the case is given as CT (non-MRI), which allows the specialist to evaluate the bone occurred structural changes.
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