How to Identify Invasive Fungal Sinusitis

Sinus Infections can be really uncomfortable and these infections can affect one or all of your sinuses. This article will educate you on how to identify a sinus infection (IFS).

Instructions

• 1

  Notice headaches mainly in the morning when you wake up. Headaches are one of the most commonly reported symptoms of sinus infection of any kind. Your frontal sinuses may be inflamed if you have pain in your lower forehead.

• 2

  Be aware of pain in your upper jaw and teeth and of tenderness in your cheeks. These pains and tenderness are normally evident of inflamation or infection of your maxillary sinuses. The maxillary sinuses lie on both sides of your nose.

• 3

  Be particularly aware of swollen eye lids, eye tissues and pain between the eyes. These particular symptoms are only evident of ethmoid sinus inflammation or infection, because these sinuses are located in the corners of each eye close to the bridge of the nose. The inflammation of these sinuses can cause tenderness in the sides of the nose, a stuffy nose and a loss of smell.

• 4

  Notice that the sphenoid or frontal sinuses are less affected by IFS. However, if these sinuses do become infected, you will most likely experience earaches, extreme pain at the top of your head and neck pains.