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Antibiotics for Sinus Infections - When NOT to Take Them
Advantages, Disadvantages

Antibiotics can be great treatment for bacterial sinus infections, but are of little effect against viruses, which represents the majority of cases. The Center for Disease Control & Prevention strongly suggests NOT taking antibiotics for a viral sinus infection. Only a bacterial infection of the sinus cavities should be treated with antibiotics.

However, if the bacteria attracts and begins to grow fungus, antibiotics could exacerbate the problem and cause more health issues. Doctors should take swabs or do other tests to get the correct indication.

Common Antibiotic Prescriptions for Sinus Infections:
Amoxicillin, penicillin or azithromycin-type antibiotics.

Advantage:
The right antibiotic, taken as prescribed, can alleviate the symptoms of a bacterial sinus infection to make us feel better very quickly.

Disadvantages:

  1. Because antibiotics make us feel better so fast, a couple of problems arise:
    • People too often run to their doctors for a “quick-fix” antibiotic.
    • A differentiating diagnosis between virus, bacteria and fungus is not made before the prescription is given.
    • We stop taking the prescription before using it all, which creates more problems, discussed below in this presentation.

    (Doctors should not feel pressured to give their patients antibiotics just because they’re hurting, and should do proper swab testing to see if the sinus infection is bacterial or viral if there is doubt.)

  2. Although we feel better fast, the antibiotics are often just a relief of the symptoms and may not get to the root problem which started the infection; it hasn’t really gone away, especially if it started from a virus and not bacteria. Therefore, many people experience a repeat infection within two to three months and begin a tedious and harmful cycle of repeat-course antibiotics. This can lead to, not prevent, chronic sinusitis.

    Sometimes, an antibiotic will simply dry up the sinus mucus so it doesn’t have a chance to thin down and run out (either through the nose or spit out from the back of the throat).

    Picture dried up, cracked desert clay or earth dirt. Should a little water be added back into the equation, the clay or dirt will get pasty and become muddy. It can stick to shoes and make a cake-like coating on your clothes. Until the mud is thinned out by enough water to make it run off, it will stay there.

    That’s what happens with sinus mucus. It must be moistened enough to get thin and run out. More often than not, antibiotics will simply dry it up and leave it where it is or make the mucus even thicker. Then, when the situation is right for it to get just a little moisture again or the yeast is encouraged to flourish, the mucus gets muddy again, new bacteria and fungus gets trapped, and the sinus infection is re-activated.
IMPORTANT: If an antibiotic is prescribed – The entire prescription MUST be taken, even if one finds out mid-stream that their sinus infection was not bacterial. And it must be taken in its properly timed doses. It’s vital not to stop as soon as feeling better. Taking the whole prescribed amount as advised will likely reduce the risk of antibiotic resistance to that antibiotic for future needs (see our Side Effects of Antibiotics for Sinus Infections page.




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