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Flu can affect 10 to 30 percent of the U.S. population each winter. The flu virus can linger in the air for as long as three hours. In close quarters, conditions are ripe for the spread of the virus. That explains why the highest incidence of the flu is in 5- to 18-year-olds, who spend much of their time in school, in close contact with their classmates. The most serious complications occur in older adults, however, especially those in managed care. Do not give aspirin or other “salicylates” to children or teenagers with symptoms of a cold or flu. Don’t bother taking antibiotics to treat your flu or cold; antibiotics do not kill viruses, and they should be used only for bacterial infections. Antibiotic overuse has become a very serious problem, leading to a resistance in disease-causing bacteria that may render antibiotics ineffective for some conditions.

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Rhinitis is a general term to categorize irritation or inflammation in the nose. The main symptom of rhinitis is a runny nose. Other symptoms that may be present are nasal congestion and post nasal drip.

Rhinitis is caused by an inflammation or irritation of the mucous membranes in the nasal passages. One of the most frequent causes of rhinitis is the common cold. A cold causes the mucous membranes to produce more mucus and swelling of the nasal passages. Other causes of rhinitis include allergies or environmental irritants. The discomfort of rhinitis can interfere with daily activities.

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Summer is in full swing in countries located in the northern hemisphere. That means sweltering heat, high humidity and heavy air. And where there is heavy humid air, there is bound to be more pollutants, particles and potentially more dust mites that can cause all sorts of allergies. This is a good time as any to seriously consider investing in an air cleaner.

As the name of the device implies, an air cleaner will filter airborne particles in the environment down to as small as 0.3 microns in size, operating at an efficiency rating of 99.97%. They will filter and remove some of the smallest of allergens such as dust, smoke, pollen, animal dander, dust mite and so on. The more times the air in a room is passed through the cleaner, the better the air quality. As you can probably imagine, the higher the air exchange rate per hour, the cleaner the air will be in that room.

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If you have a snoring problem, most likely your sleep has not been as perfect as you might want it to be. You may find yourself not getting a whole lot out of your sleep, and you start off wrongly with a bad mood early in the morning. Then you look at your partner beside you, who then gives you a sarcastic smile – as if saying: “yeah, you snored again, honey!” – making you realize that you jeopardized and disturbed your partner’s sleep all through out the night as well.

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Sometime people complain about pain in the sinus area without any of the signs of sinus infection. Over the years they received various meds for allergies and sinus until they were diagnosed with migraines. I keep reading how many people think they have sinus headaches but very few do and that sinus discharge etc. is necessary for it to be a sinus headache.

It could be confusing at times, but people are allowed to have more than one (or two) types of headaches. It is known that migraine headaches are often accompanied by sinus congestion, nasal congestion, swelling in the area between nose and eye, ear pressure and popping. This complex condition is because the migraine headaches come when the sufferer is most susceptible to allergy symptoms or are caused by his allergies.

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Time to get started on this topic. Take a few moments to read every aspect of this paper hopefully it will be of great help.

Whenever we have a stuffy nose we feel that we are coming in for a cold. At these moments we will begin treatment for what we consider is a cold. Many times these medications can temporarily provide alleviation from the symptoms of the “cold” but they push aside the underlying cause.

That is the stuffed up nose is the cause of a sinus headache. A sinus headache occurs only when the sinus passage becomes congested with too much mucus. As the sinus transition is hollow they provide your nose with another way of breathing. Also the passage way is lined with membranes that make mucus. The nasal openings at the ends of your nose allows the mucous secretion to drain out without causing you any problems. In general a sinus headache is due to the fact that there is some swelling in the sinus cavity. This swelling can be found close to the nose and the eyes.

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Snoring can be caused by a number of things and if you’re looking for a way to stop snoring, the first step is to figure out the cause.

There are 5 common causes for snoring…

Drinking Alcohol

If you regularly drink alcohol, you should check to see if your snoring is a problem on a night when you don’t drink anything.

Alcohol is a depressant and can contribute to snoring because it relaxes the muscles in your neck and throat. This relaxation is more advanced than with regular sleep and this can cause your airways to become restricted.

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Antihistamines may provide temporary relief of some allergy symptoms but they don’t help much for nasal congestion. Many individuals turn to using decongestant sprays in combination with an antihistamine. But nasal decongestants sprays are not recommended in the treatment of allergies because the response to the drug rapidly decreases after only three to seven days. Continued use of the decongestant initiates a vicious cycle of rebound nasal congestion.

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The infection of the sinuses (cavities situated inside the skull, which are filled with air), also known as sinusitis is produced by bacteria, fungus and sometimes by pollutants and allergic factors. It can be acute or chronic and can lead to serious complications like the facial bone infection or the exacerbation of respiratory tract conditions, and the extension of infection to the brain and eyes.

There are different types of sinuses: frontal, maxillary, ethmoid, and sphenoid and the symptoms might differ when each one is affected; the symptoms also differ for acute and chronic sinusitis.

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Migraines might be considered the worst of all head pains, but cluster headaches might not be far behind. Presenting with massive amounts of pain in and around a single eye, these headaches come on fast, hit hard, go away and then come back again in rapid succession. The fast-paced nature of these headaches gives rise to the name.

Cluster headaches are considered very dramatic occurrences and can strike their sufferers as much as eight times a day. The pain involved in an attack can be as short lived as five minutes or span out to cover three hours or more.

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Some people who inherit an allergy sensitive background develop certain allergies from time to time. These allergies may be due to many environmental factors and sometimes symptoms of asthma are also impersonated by them. Some common forms of these allergic reactions may be seasonal while others may be perennial in nature.

It is important to understand the differences between these and asthma so that they are never confused with asthma because their treatments as well the severity both differ from each other. Seasonal sneezing is called seasonal allergic rhinitis or hay fever in the common parlance. As against the name it is not caused because of hay but because of certain pollutants mainly certain kinds of pollen in the environment to which a person may be allergic.

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Many people have a snoring problem, but most of them don’t really know exactly what is causing it, let alone how to fix it.

One of the more common causes of snoring is alcohol. Alcohol is a depressant. It travels throughout your body and slows down your brain’s response times. Plus, it relaxes your muscles more than normal, even while sleeping.

When your muscles are more relaxed, that includes your neck and throat. When the muscles in the back of your throat – your orophanyx – are relaxed, they can collapse more easily which leads to the airway being partially or completely blocked, and ultimately to snoring.

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Sinusitis is often mistaken as a common cold; whereas, a common cold is a problem of the whole upper respiratory system whilst sinusitis only refers to the inflammation of just the sinuses.

The sinuses are cavities filled with air that are located in the nasal area. These can be inflamed when irritated.

Sinus infection can be caused by inhalation or exposure to viruses, bacteria or fungi.

There are about 3 popular forms of sinusitis characterized by the frequency they occur. The first would be acute sinusitis. A person has acute sinusitis if her sinuses are inflamed for about 3 weeks. If a person shows symptoms of sinusitis for about 3 months, then that person has acute sinusitis. But if a person experiences acute sinusitis non consequently then that person is considered to have recurrent sinusitis.

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