There are times when your child develops a cold, but the symptoms do not stop for a long period of time. He/ she has a cough or a runny nose that just do not go away. This is probably a sinus infection sign. Sinusitis, which is an infection of the sinus is very common in children. However, this sinus infection can be misdiagnosed in many children. Those who have green mucus are usually over diagnoses and the children that actually have a sinus infection are not diagnosed with it.



To better understand why a sinus infection can take place, one must know what are the causes. Sinuses are the small, empty holes in your bony skull. These caverns are lined by mucus and make the connection to the nasal passages. Some people have them even at birth, whereas other grow in time, in the first twenty years of your life. Those small holes are affected by sinus infection. Sinusitis is the term that is given to a sinus infection. When those sinuses are infected, the sinuses are swollen, red and very tender. Mucus is also a characteristic of a sinus infection. If you take things technical, any cold can also be a case of a sinus infection, cause by a virus. However, when doctors diagnose you with a sinus infection like sinusitis they actually refer to an infection caused by a bacteria. There are three types of sinus infection that are caused by a bacteria. Acute, subacute and chronic sinus infection caused by a bacteria are the three types of sinus infection that have different causes and thus

different treatments. The acute sinus infection is present in a person less than a month, the subacute sinus infection lasts about two months and the chronic sinus infection lasts more than three months. These happens only when the sinus infection is caused by a bacteria.

There is no particular group of children or adults that cen get a sinus infection. Everybody can get at one point in their lives a sinus infection. Usually, the infection of the sinus starts with a cold or an allergy, and then develops. There is also another case where the sinus infections are more common: when you are exposed to the smoke of a cigarette very often. However, some children are more at risk of developing a sinus infection then others. If your child has an ear infection, a deviated septum, immune problems of cystic fibrosis, he/ she is more likely to develop a sinus infection.