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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Sinusitis / May 2008Unified Airway Concept
Just a curiosity, anyone know much about this? The only (somewhat vague) explanation I've heard involves inflation in the lower air way passages (lungs/etc) necessitating/causing a simultaneous inflammation in the upper airways, or sinuses. Found a little blurb here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18328366 So, to that end, could the sinus symptoms that many of us suffer from actually in some what originate from a condition inflicting our lower airways? > Just a curiosity, anyone know much about this? The only (somewhat > vague) explanation I've heard involves inflation in the lower air way [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > actually in some what originate from a condition inflicting our lower > airways? it is more like the what is in the sinuses eventually can infect the lungs. The sinuses are the high ground and if the bugs get established there then they may have an easy path down hill. Fortunately, some of the worst microbiota for biofilms, fungi and actinomycetes, do not like temperatures above about 87 degrees. And nothing can move in unless a virus like the respitory flu kills off the protective cillia and goblet cells first. However staph and psudeo have varients that are adapted to core body temperatures, and I think that they will eventually find that it is when one gets those after a bout of the flu that asthma turns up. |
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