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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Sinusitis / August 2005Does ability to breathe mean sinuses are not blocked?
Right now, I can breathe freely. Does that mean openings to my frontal sinuses are open, my maxillary or both (or possibly neither)? If the ostium was blocked, would I be able to breathe? To sum up, what does ability to breathe through nostrils tell me or not tell me about sinus openings, drainage ability, etc. Thanks Joe >Right now, I can breathe freely. Does that mean openings to my frontal >sinuses are open, my maxillary or both (or possibly neither)? Neither, >If the ostium was blocked, would I be able to breathe? >To sum up, what >does ability to breathe through nostrils tell me or not tell me about >sinus openings, drainage ability, etc. Nothing. You do not breathe through your sinuses at all. They are empty chambers off to the side....... I should have added that if the turbinates are no longer swollen (and they stay relaxed), then that does at least remove a potential surce of blockage of air flow to the sinuses, and drainage from them. I think that inflammation of the turbinates is also, to some extent, a good marker for whether the air is free of allergens. If your turbinates like the air and stay down, the sinuses may like it too and not get inflamed. However, if the ducts from the sinuses are already swollen nearly shut from the past, and they are badly inflamed inside, and possibly partly full of fluid, then just improving the air flow past the turbinates is not alone likely to resolve chronic sinusitis if it has progressed very far, If it has not got that far, then it might..... > Right now, I can breathe freely. Does that mean openings to my frontal > sinuses are open, my maxillary or both (or possibly neither)? The only sinuses that might affect your ability to breathe thru your nose are the ethmoids. Those are located right around the bridge of the nose. And when they're blocked and infected, nasal stuffiness is a common symptom. (It sure happens to me.) The other sinuses, the frontals and maxillaries and sphenoids, are too far away from the breathing action to affect it.  SignatureSteven D. Litvintchouk Email: sdlitvin@earthlinkNOSPAM.net Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me. On 8/20/05 9:34 PM, in article fd0414e8836e79c2272fc511f3847b73@localhost.talkaboutsupport.com, "1Potato" <jcheffo@aol.com> wrote: > Right now, I can breathe freely. Does that mean openings to my frontal > sinuses are open, my maxillary or both (or possibly neither)? [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Thanks > Joe Think of the nasal airway as a hallway from the front of the house to the back yard. The passages can be clear i.e. The hallway is clear, but some of the doors -openings to the sinuses - can be closed. One of the doors leads to a bathroom that is filled with mold/bacteria This may overflow into the hallway or someone nailed the door shut - bony overgrowth - or someone stuffed a mattress into the door to keep the stuff in the bathroom = like a polyp blocking the sinus. When the doors are closed, the rooms get overheated, stuffy and bugs can grow, unlike when the doors and windows are open and fresh air goes through.
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