Re: STUDY: CORRELATION BETWEEN FACIAL PAIN AND SINUS SEVERITY

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> Conclusions:

> There was no correlation between pain severity and disease severity

by

> sinus CT scan as graded by the Lund-McKay, Harvard, or Kennedy

staging

> system. Facial pain and headache, although frequent complaints of

patients

> with rhinosinusitis, are not useful predictors of sinus disease

severity.

Based on my son, this is the case. His sinuses are a mess (or were

until surgery, daily nasal lavage and antibiotic therapy) but he

rarely complains of facial pain. When he does complain, I listen and

he gets Tylenol promptly. Once this winter a school he went to the

nurse (she was a substitute) and requested she call me because his

eyes hurt. She turned him down because a headache wasn't serious

enough to call. I was bullshit. She obviously didn't bother to look

up his medical history nor did the teacher enlighten her.

jan