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Sinusitis means your sinuses are inflamed. The cause can be an infection or another problem. Your sinuses are hollow air spaces within the bones surrounding the nose. They produce mucus, which drains into the nose. If your nose is swollen, this can block the sinuses and cause pain.

There are several types of sinusitis, including:

  • Acute, which lasts up to 4 weeks
  • Subacute, which lasts 4 to 12 weeks
  • Chronic, which lasts more than 12 weeks and can continue for months or even years
  • Recurrent, with several attacks within a year

Acute sinusitis often starts as a cold, which then turns into a bacterial infection. Allergies, nasal problems, and certain diseases can also cause acute and chronic sinusitis.

Symptoms of sinusitis can include fever, weakness, fatigue, cough, and congestion. There may also be mucus drainage in the back of the throat, called postnasal drip. Your health care professional diagnoses sinusitis based on your symptoms and an examination of your nose and face. You may also need imaging tests. Treatments include antibiotics, decongestants, and pain relievers. Using heat pads on the inflamed area, saline nasal sprays, and vaporizers can also help.

Saline FDA Approved Drugs

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE IN PLASTIC CONTAINER [Ammonium ChlorideClH4N]
RX
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5meq/ml (injection injectable)
HospiraJun 13, 1984
efficacy
0.0  (0)
side effects
0.0  (0)
danger
0.0  (0)

UNK

BACTERIOSTATIC SODIUM CHLORIDE 0.9% IN PLASTIC CONTAINER [Sodium ChlorideClNa]
RX
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9mg/ml (injection injectable)
Fresenius Kabi UsaFeb 7, 1985
HospiraOct 29, 1982
efficacy
0.0  (0)
side effects
0.0  (0)
danger
0.0  (0)

UNK

BRONCHO SALINE [Sodium ChlorideClNa]
OTC
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0.9% (inhalation aerosol, metered)
BlairexSep 3, 1992
efficacy
0.0  (0)
side effects
0.0  (0)
danger
0.0  (0)

UNK

SODIUM CHLORIDE 0.45% IN PLASTIC CONTAINER [Sodium ChlorideClNa]
RX
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450mg/100ml (injection injectable)
B BraunMar 9, 1988
Baxter HlthcareApproved Prior To Jan 1, 1982
HospiraJun 8, 1988
Icu Medical IncApproved Prior To Jan 1, 1982
efficacy
0.0  (0)
side effects
0.0  (0)
danger
0.0  (0)

UNK

SODIUM CHLORIDE 0.9% [Sodium ChlorideClNa]
RX
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900mg/10ml (injection injectable)
90mg/10ml (9mg/ml) (injection injectable)
B BraunAug 11, 2016
Medefil IncJan 6, 2012
West-ward Pharms IntJan 20, 2012
efficacy
0.0  (0)
side effects
0.0  (0)
danger
0.0  (0)

UNK

SODIUM CHLORIDE 0.9% IN PLASTIC CONTAINER [Sodium ChlorideClNa]
RX
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1012.5mg/125ml (9mg/ml) (injection injectable)
405mg/50ml (9mg/ml) (injection injectable)
900mg/100ml (irrigation solution)
Liebel-flarsheimJul 27, 2006
B BraunApproved Prior To Jan 1, 1982
Baxter HlthcareApproved Prior To Jan 1, 1982
Fresenius MedclApr 12, 2007
HaemoneticsOct 27, 2004
HospiraJul 15, 1985
Icu Medical IncApproved Prior To Jan 1, 1982
Laboratorios GrifolsMay 25, 2017
Fresenius Kabi UsaJan 10, 1985
Jubilant HollistrstrMay 18, 2016
TaroAug 11, 2006
efficacy
0.0  (0)
side effects
0.0  (0)
danger
0.0  (0)

UNK

SODIUM CHLORIDE 0.9% IN STERILE PLASTIC CONTAINER [Sodium ChlorideClNa]
RX
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900mg/100ml (irrigation solution for slush)
Baxter HlthcareMay 17, 1985
efficacy
0.0  (0)
side effects
0.0  (0)
danger
0.0  (0)

UNK

SODIUM CHLORIDE 3% IN PLASTIC CONTAINER [Sodium ChlorideClNa]
RX
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3gm/100ml (injection injectable)
Baxter HlthcareNov 1, 1983
efficacy
0.0  (0)
side effects
0.0  (0)
danger
0.0  (0)

UNK

SODIUM CHLORIDE 5% IN PLASTIC CONTAINER [Sodium ChlorideClNa]
RX
-
5gm/100ml (injection injectable)
Baxter HlthcareNov 1, 1983
efficacy
0.0  (0)
side effects
0.0  (0)
danger
0.0  (0)

UNK

SODIUM CHLORIDE IN PLASTIC CONTAINER [Sodium ChlorideClNa]
RX
-
2.5meq/ml (injection injectable)
HospiraJul 20, 1984
efficacy
0.0  (0)
side effects
0.0  (0)
danger
0.0  (0)

UNK

WARNING: Consult a licensed physician in the appropriate field for medical treatment and drug prescription. Do not self medicate.


WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.

Felter's Materia Medica on Saline

ASPIDIUM
   The rhizome of Dryopteris Filix-mas and of Dryopteris marginalis, Asa Gray (Nat. Ord. Filices). World-wide ferns of the Northern Hemispheres.... / ... flavored emulsion, follow at midday with a full meal without fats, and in the evening give a brisk saline cathartic. Under no circumstances must oils, especially castor oil, be given with it during t... / ...americana).1

CHENOPODIUM
   The fruit and oil of Chenopodium ambrosioides anthelminticum, Linné (Nat. Ord. Chenopodiaceae). Waste places throughout the United States. Common... / ...xed with syrup or emulsion of acacia and syrup, administered on an empty stomach, and followed by a saline Purge or castor oil one or two hours afterward. The oil may be given in capsule to older chil...1

GRANATUM
   The dried bark of the stems and roots of Punica Granatum, Linné (Nat. Ord. Punicaceae). India, southwestern Asia, and the Mediterranean... / ...rine preparations are administered a light milk diet in the evening is followed in the morning by a saline purge, and then the combined alkaloids administered. In about one hour another dose of the pu...1


WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.

Physician's Materia Medica on Saline

PINK-ROOT (Splgella)
   The root of SPIGELIA MARILANDICA, Lin. .An .eflicient anthelmintic, producing toxic symptoms resembling those of belladonna if given in excessive doses. It should be combined .with a cathartic or followed by an efficient saline purge.2

POTASSIUM AND SODIUM TARTRATE (Rochelle Salt)
   An agreeable and eflicient saline laxative, also refrigerant and in dilute solutions diuretic and antilithic. Used most commonly in the form of Seidlitz powders. Dose as refrigei-ant, 1 to 4 Grm. (15 to 60 grs.); as antilithic, 4 to 8 Grm. (60 to 120 grs.); as laxative, 15 Grm. (half an ounce) or more.2

SANTONIN
   Neutral principle obtained from ARTEMISIA PAUCIFLORA, Weber. Anthelmintic. A favorite remedy for lumbricoid worms, most com monly exhibited in the form of lozcnges. Dose for adult, 0.06 to 0.12 Grm. (1 to 2 grs.). The dose should be followed within six hours with 0.15 or 0.2 Grm. (2 or 3 grs.) of calomel. and two hours later with a saline cathartic, to produce the best effects. Often, however. the calomel is given with the santonin at bed-time, and a seidlitz powder or other cathartic given th2

SODIUM SULPHATE
   A saline purgative. not now much prescribed. Dose, 8 to 30 Grm. .(1/4 to 1 ounce).2

YERBA REUMA
   The herb of FRANKENIA GRANDIFOLIA, Cham. & Schlecht. As tringent, saline; used in passive hemorrhages and alvine fluxes, but especially as a topical application in catarrhal affections of the nasal passages, urethra, etc. For this use the fluid extract is diluted with from 2 to 5 times its volume of water.2


WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.

Physician's Therapeutics Memoranda on Saline

ACIDITY OF STOMACH
   If due to fermentation, use antacids as palliatives to relieve im mediate distress, but prescribe also gastric antiseptics. Avoid indigestible food, particularly lats. If acidity is irom hyper-secretion, the remedies are antacids and henbane, for its inhibitive action on the secretions. In chronic gastric catarrh, bismuth. silver nitrate, antacids combined with salines. In all severe cases. lavage is the most useful treatment.2

BILIOUSNESS
   When “bilious”... / ...k is threatened give mercurous iodide, 1 gr. or calomel 2 to 5 grs. (or % gr. every 15 minutes till six doses are taken), followed in four hours by a saline (effervescing granules mag nesia citrated). Often an emetic is the most eflicient remedy; ipecac followed by copious draught of tepid water. Be...2

COLLAPSE
   The most important remedies are Elixir D igitalin Compound, N., B. & Co. and atropine hypodermatically. Subcutaneous injection of saline solution; ether. digitalis, alcohol are remedies of value. See Shock.2

CONSTIPATION
   Medicate no more than is necessary. Prescribe regular open air exercise, regularity in going to stool; correct the... / ...rada (fluid extract aromatic or jellules); 3, com binations of aloin, belladonna and strychnine, or of podophyllin with nux vomica and belladonna; 4, saline waters or their equiva lent in effervescing granules, particularly the preparation of sodium phosphate.2

GASTRIC CATARRH
   At first withhold all food, later give milk and lime water. Cleanse stomach of irritating... / ...ltice or hot water bag. In Chronic Gastric Catarrh, lavage is the most important remedy. Sodium phosphate in solution or effervescing granules, or ,a saline mineral water; bismuth; antacids and gastric antiseptics as needed; silver nitrate combined with ext. henbane. Let the diet be simple, and regu...2

INFLUENZA
   The remedies most prescribed in the early stage are; aconlte and potassium citrate to control... / ...; phenacetin or acetanilid, often combined with salol, for their analgesic action; quinine salicylate, aspirin, salicylic acid; calomel followed by a saline purge. The bronchitis must be treated in the usual manner, avoid ing depressing agents such as tartar emetic. Cannabis indica is a safe sedativ...2

JAUNDICE
   Treatment is somewhat empirical, the remedies most used being sodium phosphate (20 to 120 grs. two or three times a day), hydrastis, iodoform, citric acid, pilocarpine and salol. When due to catarrh of the duct, calomel and sodium bicarbonate in divided doses followed by a saline cathartic.2

NEPHRITIS, ACUTE
   Prescribe at first aconite, calomel and sodium bicarbonate fol lowed by a saline cathartic; warm mucilaginous drinks, potassium citrate and Ze-an; Glyceroplasma over loins. If uremia is threaten ed, elaterium, Tonic Pilocarpine Compound, hot air baths to cause sweating. In later stages digitalis and squill, caffeine, compound spirit juniper, even cantharides in small doses.2

OBESITY
   Regulate the diet, withholding fatty, saccharine and starchy food to a large extent; as remedies, prescribe saline waters, e. g. Kis singen and Vichy on alternate days (the Effervescing Granules are convenient) or sodium phosphate; fluid extract bladder-wrack; ex tract thyroid gland; Turkish baths; suitable exercise, active or passive.2

PERITONITIS
   If surgical interference is not deemed advisable, combat pain and inflammation with calomel and opium; apply turpentine stupes for relief of tympanites; Glyceroplasma is often useful for its depletant action; if no obstruction or perforation exists, salines are often useful, for their depleting and refrigerant action; injection of asafetida or of turpentine emulsion may relieve tympanites.2

PLEURITIS
   General treatment for inflammation. Locally apply Glycero plasma, which is particularly... / ...ful after effusion has taken place. In the early stage simply strapping the chest, to relieve pain, is bet ter. To remove effusion, salicylic acid or saline or hydragogue cathartics or active diuretics such as Tonic Pilocarpine Compound. N., B. & Co.; application to chest of tincture iodine or a mix...2

REMITTENT FEVER
   Quinine in large doses. proceeded by calomel and a saline purge is the standard treatment. Hematuria is a contraindication. In chronic cases arsenic is the most important remedy. Intestinal or renal hemorrhages must be treated on general principles.2


References

1) Felter, Harvey Wickes, 1922, The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.