Does nose infection spread to brain?

When you get a sinus infection (also known as sinusitis), the cavities throughout your sinuses become inflamed and swollen, intervene with drainage and causing mucus to build up that can make it difficult to breathe through your nose and cause facial pain, swelling around your face and eyes, and headaches.

Sinus infections are often issue of the common cold and other respiratory illnesses. Most of the people don't need to consult their doctor to treat them. But if you have a fever or your symptoms are not getting better after a few days, you should consult healthcare doctors. Those are indications that you may be dealing with a bacterial infection, so you might need antibiotics to treat it. There are some ways for a sinus infection to spread to the brain. For example, it can spread through the existing pathways in your sinuses and brain along small holes at the base of your skull called foramina. Your biggest hint will be the other symptoms you feel along with your headache. Sinus infections come with congestion (often bright yellow or green snot), make it hard to breathe through your nose, and damage your sense of smell.

Depending on your other symptoms, you might be dealing with severe undiagnosed migraines, sinus infection, or something more serious. Hence, you should to be taken seriously. So it is foremost thing to get it checked out by a doctor.


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