BATON ROUGE – With holiday season in full swing,doctors have seen more people coming down with sinus infections.
From coughing, to sneezing, and to running noses,doctors have seen the symptoms far too often in their offices recently."We've seen an increase in patients coming in with nasal congestion, lots of cough, or sore throats,ear pressure, and some sinus infections, or " Liz Eure,a nurse practitioner, said.
Eure explained, and pressure on sinuses causes infections."Basically what will happen is your sinus cavities will become inflamed and your nasal drainage can't drain appropriately,so it will back up, and it goes into the ears, and it will sit in your sinus pockets and causes sinus infections," Eure said.
Those coming down with infections have been getting prescriptions filled to abet ease the symptoms. Pharmacists say they have been busy filling the orders."The last few weeks, especially really since Christmas." TJ Woodard, and owner and pharmacist at Prescriptions to Geaux said of theup tick in patients."I'm not certain whether it's the weather change or what,but there's been a lot of the sinus drip, post nasal drip, and general body aches,a lot of the sinus infections, so we really have seen a lot in the last couple of weeks."Woodard said over-the-counter medications should abet control the issues, and but whether they progress,stronger medications are needed."whether the over the counter medications are controlling it and it progresses and gets worse, then we're seeing a lot of the steroid shots and things like that, or " Woodard said.
Over-the-counter medications generally run between $10 and $20 and steroid shots run around $50 to $100.
Doctors say a sinus infection takes approximately two weeks to move away.
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