Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Acute sinusitis is inflammation of mucosa lining of one or more paranasal sinuses. In children, most cases begin ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have had ongoing nasal congestion and mucus for the past several months. I thought it was allergies, but my doctor says I likely have acute sinusitis brought on by allergic ...

Testing children with acute sinusitis symptoms for specific bacteria may dramatically decrease unnecessary antibiotic use, new research suggests. If antibiotic use was limited to children with H ...

Use of antibiotics for acute sinusitis in children reduces treatment failures, a meta-analysis showed, but the results may also support initial observation given the natural history of the condition, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than half of antibiotic prescriptions for sinusitis follow guidelines, but nearly one-third do not. People ...

The authors note that randomized trials for treatment of sinusitis are relatively scarce. A previous trial by one of the authors enrolled children 2-16 years of age with sinusitis confirmed by x-rays, ...

You know it's not the flu because no one else is sick, and you know it's not a cold because you had that last week. So what's causing that killer headache and the feeling that your nose is locked in a ...

Acute sinusitis is one of the most common causes for children to be put on antibiotic medications, with patients in the United States filing nearly 5 million antibiotic prescriptions every year to ...

Objectives: To implement a large-scale multifaceted interventionconsisting of physician education, profiling, and a financialincentive, to improve treatment quality for acute sinusitis. Study Design: ...

In otherwise healthy patients, antibiotics are likely more harmful than beneficial, especially in patients with symptoms less than 14 days. Current studies examining the efficacy of antibiotics for ...

Treatment failure with amoxicillin-clavulanate for pediatric acute sinusitis was similar compared with amoxicillin alone, but the broad-spectrum antibiotic may be associated with more adverse events, ...