subject: Balloon Sinuplasty Is A New Technique To Avoid Sinus Infection [print this page] People those who are suffering from allergies, their nose may react to allergy-inducing substances in the air, such as dust or mold. Allergic nasal and sinus swelling may in turn lead to sinusitis. Foodstuff allergies can also be an unrecognized cause of nasal congestion and swelling. Finally, certain situation that exists within your own body can intensify your vulnerability to sinus infections. For example, at the time of emotional stress can result in swelling of the nasal lining. As well as many women patients increase nasal swelling during pregnancy. So some important following method could help the patients.
Balloon sinuplasty is an endoscope, catheter-based, outpatient procedure now being used to treat sinusitis patients who are not improving with medications and may or else have been candidates for functional endoscope sinus surgery. Sinusitis is a common trouble causing very bad headaches, facial ache, nasal block and post-nasal drip, requiring many sufferers to undertake surgery for permanent release. Baloon sinuplasty works on the similar principle as balloon angioplasty where a minute hot-air balloon device is used to widen a clogged sinus opening. Sinuses are all air-filled cavities in the skull, located around the nose.
There are four pairs of them
Maxillary sinuses - in the cheek bones and on either side of the nose
Frontal sinuses - in the forehead and above the eyes
Ethmoid sinuses - located deeper and in between the eyes and the nose
Sphenoid sinuses - located deeper and behind and above the nose
AS per balloon sinuplasty doctors every sinus is associated to the nose by a thin opening or vessel. Infection or allergy can source the tissue in these openings to swell up, making them thinner, and sometimes even absolutely close up. As a result in mucus being retained in the sinus cavity and the air-filled cavity slowly become fluid-filled, giving rise to all the symptom of sinusitis like headache and a blocked nose. This is where balloon sinuplasty comes in a small balloon is threaded on a wire and catheter, passed up the nostril and inserted into the opening of the sinus. The balloon is then inflated so it expands to 3 to 5 mm, fracturing the surrounding bones and pushing them apart, in the procedure widening the opening of the sinus. This helps drain the retained mucus and relieves the patient of symptoms.
