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What are the symptoms of sinusitis? |
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The main symptom of sinusitis is a throbbing pain and pressure in the face, which is worse bending forwards.
- Frontal sinusitis can cause pain above your eyebrows, and your forehead may be tender to touch.
- Maxillary sinusitis can cause your upper jaw, teeth and cheeks to ache and may be mistaken for toothache.
- Inflammation of the ethmoid sinuses can cause pain around and between your eyes and the sides of your nose.
- Inflammation of the sphenoid sinus can cause you to ache behind your eyes, at the top of your head or in your temples. You may also have earache and neck pain.
Other typical symptoms of sinusitis include:
- a blocked nose with discoloured mucus, which tends to drain down the back of the nose into the throat
- frequent headaches
- reduced sense of smell
- cold symptoms that don't respond to treatment
- Very rarely, the infection can spread to the facial bones or the membranes lining the brain (meningitis).
- Also very rarely, sinusitis can spread to form a pocket of pus (abscess) in an eye socket, the brain or a facial bone.
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