What are the main causes of sinus disease ?
A. The main causes of sinus disease are blowing nose too hard, not clearing up the first infection, getting chilled , not resting, and drinking iced drinks. This may start out a mild infection but with heavy “macho” blowing, the pus is spread all around the nose and ear. With the allergy sufferer, after sneezing and exhaustion, without rest, the sinus infection may become chronic. Weather can make a sinus condition worse, but it is not be a cause. In menstruation and pregnancy there may be swelling of the membranes, but this is not the cause of the sinusitis. Most sinus problems show slow nasal cilia. These are the microscopic hairs that beat to move the bacteria out of the nose into the throat where they are swallowed and the stomach takes them out. By using saline with a special attachment that fits on the standard pulsating dental irrigator device such as a Water Pik ” the cilia are pulsed at a rate of 20 pulses per second at a special pressure that is just right. Thick mucus is rem
