The figure of people suffering from nasal congestion, postnasal drip leading to severe sinusitis every year, is that of 37 million Americans.
Those of you who are no aware about this condition must know that sinusitis is a state in which there is inflammation of the mucous membrane which line the sinus cavities. There are many steroid sprays available in the markets which include Flonase, Nasonex and Rhinocort for the same and have been proved to be extremely beneficial for the reduction of this kind of inflammation. This also leads to the promotion of the drainage in the sinuses. This is often prescribed to treat chronic sinusitis and other allergies with similar symptoms.
From news-medical.net:
Overall, 73 percent of the patients treated with nasal steroids experienced relief or marked improvement of symptoms during the study period, compared with only 66.4 percent of patients who received the placebo.
“For every 100 patients treated with intranasal corticosteroids, seven additional patients had complete or marked symptom relief,” compared to those in the placebo group, the reviewers found.
Stronger doses of nasal steroids appeared to work better. Patients receiving daily doses of 400 micrograms were more likely to experience relief of sinusitis symptoms, than were patients receiving 200-microgram doses.
Although there is not enough evidence to suggest that nasal steroids can stand alone for acute sinusitis treatment, “the results of these studies and reviews support the current clinical rationale of adding an intranasal corticosteroid to antibiotic therapy,” reviewers say.
There have been a few reviews about it which have been published in the issue of The Cochrane Library , a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration. This is an international body which evaluates research in all the dimensions of health care. The systematic reviews stated here have drawn some useful evidences about the medical practice after considering both the content as well as the quality of the trials.
However, you will also find a few side effects of employing nasal steroids for sinusitis but one should know that they are extremely expensive for any layman to afford. According to information released by The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the diagnosing and treatment of sinusitis costs Americans nearly $6 billion every year.
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