ethmoiditis

Ethmoiditis - inflammation of the mucous membrane of cells (cells) of the ethmoid bone. Acute etmoidit often occurs as a complication of infectious or allergic rhinitis, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, et al., As well as due to the spread of other inflammation of the paranasal sinuses. Inflammation of the front cells of a trellised labyrinth is usually combined with a lesion of the maxillary (maxillary) sinuses and frontal and rear - with an inflammation of the main sinus. There have been complaints of headache, pressing pain in the root of the nose and the nose on the shortness of nasal breathing, dramatically reduced sense of smell. Children often marked swelling of the eyelids and conjunctival hyperemia on the affected side. Sometimes the pain radiates to the forehead. Nasal discharge serous at first, and then purulent. Body temperature increased. At the complicated outflow of pus inflammation can spread to the tissue of the orbit, which is accompanied by swelling of the eyelids and the eyeball outward deviation (empyema posterior ethmoid cells) When rhinoscopy middle turbinate swelling, hyperemic. The presence of nasal discharge, on average during the points to defeat the front ethmoid cells. Chronic ethmoiditis proceeds as catarrhal, purulent or polypous-purulent inflammation. Patients complain of oppressive pain in the nose and the inner corner of the eye socket, a reduced sense of smell.

Treatment, as with other inflammation of the paranasal sinuses predominantly conservative -. Physiotherapy (eg, current UHF), etc. In a complicated ethmoiditis may be indicated surgery (removal of the front end of the middle turbinate, polipotomiya) and purulent ethmoiditis .- opening the ethmoid cells bones. The prognosis for timely treatment favorable. The prevention of the important role played by the timely and rational treatment of diseases complicated by etmoidita, hardening of the body.