Symptoms often include facial pressure, congestion and fatigue — It affects about 37 million Americans each year — Infections ...

Respiratory infections like the common cold often start with a stuffy nose, and this minor ailment is sometimes followed by pain and tenderness around the cheeks, eyes and forehead — a telltale ...

Sinuses are interconnected, hollow spaces located in the skull that connect to the nasal passages. They help filter the air we breathe and act as another level of immune defense. Sinuses are lined ...

Most people are familiar with bacterial sinus infections that come with seasonal colds or allergies, but another, potentially more serious type of infection often goes unrecognized until it causes ...

A sinus infection (sinusitis) is caused by a virus or (sometimes) bacteria that creates swelling in the nasal passages. Oftentimes, sinus infections come with or after a viral upper respiratory ...

When, before I became a father, I saw my grandmother suck mucus out of the nostrils of babies I little realised that, some day, I, too, as a parent, would help relieve nasal congestion in my babies in ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have had ongoing nasal congestion and mucus for the past several months. I thought it was allergies, but my doctor says I likely have acute sinusitis brought on by allergic ...

Sinusitis is simply the inflammation of the tissue lining these pockets. When the lining swells, those narrow doorways get ...

Country music superstar Maren Morris has been suffering from a sinus infection that caused her face to swell. Morris ...

Excessive production of mucus and/or congestion in the sinuses is quite often caused by a reaction to specific foods. Certain foods are renowned for the mucus-forming ability. Of these, dairy products ...

DEAR DOCTORS: I saw my dentist for pain in an upper molar, but the X-ray was normal. My nose was also plugged up, and she said it might be my sinuses. I started doing a saline rinse, and after a few ...

You know it's not the flu because no one else is sick, and you know it's not a cold because you had that last week. So what's causing that killer headache and the feeling that your nose is locked in a ...