Aerosynexitis

Aerosynusitis is an inflammation of the paranasal sinuses that occurs when sharp changes in the barometric pressure of the ambient air occur. Observed in pilots, experimenters in pressure chambers, when working in caissons. It arises from the obstruction of the outlets of the paranasal sinuses (in patients with allergic rhinitis, with a curvature of the nasal septum, with hypertrophic rhinitis, etc.). More often the frontal sinuses are involved in the process, more rarely - the maxillary.

Symptoms, course. Feeling of heaviness, pressure and sharp pain in the area of ​​the affected sinus, headache, violation of nasal breathing. On the roentgenogram, there is a darkening of the sinus and sometimes a liquid level.

Treatment should be aimed at restoring nasal breathing and patency of the excretory ducts of the paranasal sinuses. In order to prevent aerosynexitis, it is recommended to postpone flight, work in caissons, pressure chambers until the recovery of nasal breathing.