INFANTILE SINUSITIS

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	INFANTILE SINUSITIS
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INFANTILE SINUSITIS

During the first months of life, most of the babies they stay generally healthy, thanks to the antibodies that received from their mother and to whom they receive by means of maternal milk, in addition to which they begin to develop its own immunological system.

Later and until the 5 years of age, all the children and children usually have a series of infections, some of so slight them that they do not present/display sintomatología and other that are pronounced like some respiratory disease, of such form that calculates that normally they suffer of between 6 and 10 infections per year.

Of these, most frequent they are the respiratory ones and one calculates that around 10% of them they are gotten to complicate causing an acute sinusitis, that is an infectious disease that is originated in the face sines.

There are four groups of paranasales sines: The frontals, located by above of the eyes, the etmoidales, in the area of the cheeks, maxilares, located in both sides of the nose and that extends below the cheeks and the esfenoidales, in front of the ears.

The paranasales sines form a group of communicated airspace with the nose, that are in the bones that conform the face.

The sines maxilares and the etmoidales can become infected from the birth, whereas the sines esfenoidal and frontal are gotten to only infect between the 3 and 6 years.

These spaces, fill of secretions during almost all the acute respiratory infections and they drain when the infection yields, nevertheless, when this does not happen is developed a sinusitis, generally when the infection is lasting by more than 10 days. The main symptoms are swollen eyes, headache, badly breath and fever. The nasal secretion appears as it thickens and white in pus form, the cough is humid and gets worse during the night.

Between the factors that ready the sinusitis, they are the environmental allergies, polluting agents, the frequent diminution of the immunological defenses, infections and bad treated and the difficulty to drain the nose suitably, which can happen by the deviation of the nasal partition or by the presence of strange bodies within the nose.

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