| Abstract: | The sulfonamides and antibiotics have been of great value in reducing the duration and severity of acute sinusitis in children.Chemotherapy, in the acute case, will probably prevent much chronic sinusitis of the infectious type.The most common variety of chronic sinus disease is due to a primary allergic condition plus secondary infection. It is impossible to treat these cases successfully without treating the allergy as well as the infection.The home use of any nose drop preparation is of very little value in the treatment of chronic sinusitis of any type or localization.The local nasal use of sulfonamides or antibiotics is not based upon rational principles. Their clinical value is negligible. They may, moreover, be decidedly irritating to the nasal mucosa.One should not hesitate to resort to rational surgical procedures to improve nasal ventilation in a child with sinusitis.While the advent of chemotherapeutic, antibiotic and antihistaminic drugs has been of inestimable value in the treatment of chronic sinusitis, we must not neglect to surgically correct anatomical defects and irreversible pathological mucosal changes which interfere with proper nasal physiological processes. |
