Did your father do any allergen test? It can be a cause of the sinusitis.

I do occasionally have sinusitis eversince I moved into an apartment. I can't stand staying in the room with my roommate since the room and her always makes me sneeze and allergy until I had to limit my time in the room. Then whenever I accidentally irritate my nose, the symptoms comes like haywire. I try to clean the room and try to air in the room whenever she was in it. But it works when she was out anyway.

Where do you live? If you live in a city, maybe a change of air is good for your dad. Is your father fitness level is optimum? Try to make him move or take a walk around the garden. Older people are susceptible to infections if he remains dormant all day.

Your father should conduct a lab test to check if he got a bacteria-derived sinusitis. Anti-viral won't work against bacteria. If you had your dad's lab report from hospital visits. It will give me a bit clue of whats happen (haha.. btw, I am biomed student, basically I was studying pathology and microbiology now, so my memory is a bit fresh)

Sometimes, surgical procedure won't guarantee your father to have no flu-symptoms. I strongly abhor it. Specialist doctors usually offer it to gain money. Its true nowadays... ok.. my sis is also a doctor, but do I have to defend her senior's profession? nope...


Some sinusitis are inherited but if it come from 3-4 weeks, I think there's something in the house that he can't tolerate. Allergy symptoms can appear like a fever, so you better check it out.

ok... this is important, did your dad's nasal symptoms comes with a lung pain or feels uncomfortable?

This post has been edited by aoibhealFae: Nov 26 2008, 08:07 PM