| It can be difficult to determine the cause of chronic sinusitis. Some
health experts think it is an infectious disease, but others are not certain. It is an
inflammatory disease that often occurs in people with asthma. If you have asthma, which is
an allergic disease, you may have chronic sinusitis which may make it worse. If you are
allergic to airborne allergens, such as house dust mites, mold, and pollen, which trigger
allergic rhinitis, you may develop chronic sinusitis. An allergic reaction to certain
fungi may be responsible for at least some cases of chronic sinusitis. In addition, people
who are allergic to fungi can develop a condition called “allergic fungal
sinusitis.” If you are prone to getting chronic sinusitis, damp weather,
especially in northern temperate climates, or pollutants in the air and in buildings also
can affect you.
If you have an immune deficiency disorder or an abnormality in the way mucus moves
through and from your respiratory system (for example, primary immune deficiency, HIV
infection, or cystic fibrosis), you might develop chronic sinusitis with frequent bouts of
acute sinusitis due to infections. In addition, if you have severe asthma, nasal polyps
(small growths in the nose), or a severe asthma attack caused by aspirin and aspirin-like
medicines such as ibuprofen, you might have chronic sinusitis.
Health care providers often find it difficult to treat chronic sinusitis successfully,
realizing that symptoms persist even after taking antibiotics for a long period. As
discussed below, many health care providers treat sinusitis with steroids such as steroid
nasal sprays. Many health care providers treat chronic sinusitis as though it is an
infection, by using antibiotics and decongestants. Others use both antibiotics along with
steroid nasal sprays. Further research is needed to determine what the best treatment is.
Some people with severe asthma are said to have dramatic improvement of their symptoms when
their chronic sinusitis is treated with antibiotics.
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