Sinus mushroom - hidden killer

Sinus fungal disease is easily fatal due to skull complications. But the disease is difficult to detect early because there are no special symptoms.

The blocks of mushrooms are taken from the sinuses (Photo: nld) Ms. Thanh (gardening in Phuoc Dong, Khanh Hoa) often has a headache at the top and back of the neck for a whole year, then numbs the left side and snorts blood regularly. . She was treated for sinusitis but the disease did not decrease. At Cho Ray Hospital, after CT-scan and laparoscopic surgery, she was diagnosed with fungal sinusitis. After taking antifungal medication for 1 month, her face became numb, only mild headache.

Ms. Thanh was lucky to be discovered in time. Ms. Trang (also a gardener in Cho Lach, Ben Tre) has a different fate. This patient has sore-butterfly sinusitis with intracranial complications, causing constant headache and vomiting, depleted people, protruding and blurred eyes, enlarged pupils. Although she was treated with antifungal drugs but due to the illness, she died.

Abuse antibiotics are prone to sinus fungus

At the Department of Nose-Sinang Ho Chi Minh City Otolaryngology Hospital, in recent years, each year, about 70 cases of sinus fungus are treated each year, often seen in the jaw sinuses and sinuses of long-term sinusitis patients, abuse of resistance create favorable conditions for fungal growth . The head doctor Nguyen Thi Quynh Lan said that the sinus fungus disease was not much before but in recent years, there are many strong antibiotics in the market, patients use indiscriminate antibiotics, so the disease tends to increase, almost 3 times more than before.

A study in Ho Chi Minh City found that sinus fungal infections were more than 1 year old, of which nearly 60% lasted 2-5 years, even more than 5 years. The disease is common in people working in agriculture or living, working in a humid environment, regular contact with rotting cereals, organic fertilizer, rotting straw . Common fungus in sinuses is aspergillus, causing diseases when there are favorable factors such as congestion of sinus nasal cavity due to chronic sinusitis, sinus nasal polyps, foreign bodies . The same situation, people with immunocompromised (blood disease, condition chemotherapy, immunosuppression) or systemic diseases such as diabetes, prolonged corticosteroids, broad spectrum antibiotics . are more susceptible to sinus infections.

Dr. Tran Minh Truong, Head of the Department of Otolaryngology of Cho Ray Hospital, said that in the early stages, symptoms were not special, except for cases of bloody sputum . Patients often think of having common diseases (such as headaches, colds, etc.) should be ignored or not examined properly, so the disease is detected late. When fungi invade surrounding organizations, the illness is often severe with symptoms such as dizziness, loss of balance, vomiting, and disease that can lead to dangerous complications such as blindness, meningitis, arterial rupture. sight, pituitary abscess, sinus vein thrombosis .

If the disease is detected early, the treatment is not complicated: the patient will be given antifungal medication after having a laparoscopic surgery to remove the mushroom block and wash out the pus in the sinuses.