The common symptoms of sinusitis are headache…depending on the sinuses involved. The pain is felt where the affected sinus lies. The frontal sinus lies on the frontal borne directly above the eyes.

The maxillary sinus lies under the eyes, the ethnocide sinus lies behind the nose and sphenoid is behind the centre of the skull base.

A patient will also experience a postnasal discharge and it is non-smelling. In the cases of bacterial sinusitis the discharge is yellowish and could also be blood stained.

For fungus sinusitis,  the discharge is clear and could also be blood stained, while viral, the discharge is usually clear with a lot of mucus but may also be blood stained. It may cause headache and itching.

For bacteria and fungal, the itching may not be as pronounced.

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