On Apr 3, 8:36 pm, "baseballfurl...@gmail.com"
<baseballfurl...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Apr 3, 8:36 pm, "baseballfurl...@gmail.com"
<baseballfurl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Read the other posts in this newsgroup.

Go over to http://www.pubmed.gov
and enter "biofilm sinusitis" and biofilm adenoiditis into the search
box.
Go to the National Science Foundation Center for Biofilm Engineering
Site and read what you find there.

If you can get your parents to do the same.
It is hard for a technically educated adult to get effective treatment
for this disease.
Here is why. Almost all bacteria grow in multispeies communities in
goo they make themselves, but it was almost impossilbe to
identify them or work with them or figure out what they did when many
different species are present, so techniques were developed to
seperate out the bacteria one by one so that only one species of
bacteria was growing on the test media.
Then that bacteria is used on a test animal to see if the bacteria
makes the animal sick, and to see if that bacteria can be recovered
from the test animal when it sickens.
Once the bacteria was proven to cause disease, the minimum amount of
antibiotic needed inhibit growth by a given amount is  determined both
in vitro, (in a petri dish) and in live animals. (Minimum Inhibitory
Concentration 50 or MIC 50 is the amount of antibiotic required to
inhibit the numbers of bacteria by 50%.)
For the last couple of hundred years this is the way that it has been
done, however with the exception of nasties like anthrax, bacteria do
not naturally grow as a single species monoculture,, they live in the
community goo and in the goo, also called a biofilm, they are 100 to
1000 times as hard to kill with most antibiotics, and only about 1% of
the bacteria out there have ever been characterized at all.

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1B2GGIC_enUS216&hl=en&q=koch%27s+postulate+biof
ilm&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.biology.ucsd.edu/classes/bimm124.WI07/lec_13-14t_07.pdf

The problem is that having made the simplification 200 years ago, to
make the problem tractable, they forgot that they were looking at a
simplification, not the real thing.  Kinda like mistaking a video game
driving program for real driving..
I can only suppose that it is probably completely frustrating for a
teen, it is completely frustrating for adults and for a lot of Docs
who have taken the time and effort to do the biofilm research or keep
themselves informed of it.

NOW

You have been tested for allergies, so lets assume that you are not
allergic to milk or milk
products.
Bacteria communicate with each other via lactones, acetyl hydro
lactones to be precise, so
milk products just caused some of the slime that was already stuck in
the vicinity of your adenoids to drop down.
Milk does not produce mucus, it does cause the top layer of it to let
go so you can spit it out.

Also when you excercise you increase the flow from the goblet cells in
you nose, so you get better clearance.
That is when you really see what is up there.

You need an MRI or a CT scan.
The the blockage that you describe certainly sounds like a symptom of
adenoiditis.
Normally the adenoids shrink and are pretty much gone by your age, but
it is far from unknown for a infection to cause this lymph tissue at
the top of your throat where your windpipe bends into your sinuses to
swell again in teens and adults.
It is possible you  may need an adenoidectomy which is where they
scrape out your upper tonsils so that they do not block the airway
into your sinuses.

In the meantime,
The goo formers do not like heat. Some of the bonds that hold the
mucus together are like those in geletin and the mucus becomes more
runny at higher temperatures.
Saunas and steam baths may help you to initially clear your airways.
Also you might be able to clear your breathing by spending a day
gargling with a non-alcoholic anti plaque mouthwash such as Crest,
sniffing and spitting out the goo that comes down. You have a much
better chance of vacuuming the goo out the back than blowing it out
the front.
Chocolate milk and letting chewable Vitamin C melt in your mouth along
with a Pepcid will also bring down the goo.
Sniff, Spit Sniff, Spit Sniff, Sniff Spit , Blow.
Gargle, repeat.
There will be an incredible amount of it, but you probably CAN
probably sniff it down faster than the bugs can make it and then stay
ahead of them.
Using a hydro pulse, or a water-pic on low pressure to wash out your
nose with one of the recipes for irrigation solution on this newsgroup
will soften up the dried goo plugs in the front of your nose and allow
you to blow them out once you have opened an airway by sniffing.

Bacteria such as e coli make amyloid fibers (strong, clear, insoluble
molecule thin fibers like those in spider silk) which from a network
that supports the kind of clear bouncy stringy mucus that you
describe. When they that kind of clear stringy mucus such as you
describe in the blood vessels of people's brains they describe it as
cerebral amyloid angiopathy.  One reason that they are having a hard
time getting an MRI contrast agent for beta amyloid approved is that
it keeps highlighting the lining on the sinuses more than lesions in
the brain. I personally think this is a clue about  where the amyloid
comes from in the first place, but a lot of doctors are still having
problems grasping that there are bacteria in the sinuses at all, much
less that they produce toxic goo.

Once the bacteria have latched on and made the slime bed, fungal
spores can germinate and mycelium add strength to the mucus.
Zantac and Pepcid are both over the counter drugs which are anti
fungal when combined with Vitamin C and are quite effective for
stomach pain. To get the most effective anti fungal, Sporanox, you
will have be be diagnosed and have your liver enzymes checked on a
regular basis.

I hope this helps you get the treatment that you need to get well.

Study microbiology in school!  Knowledge is your best defense.

Best of luck.

Elizabeth