Sinus Issues?

[zip2play]

This year I have had major sinus issues. They just clear up, I have a week break and then BAM back again.

Is this just me? Is it related due to the autoimmune nature of the disease? Allergies?

Any help is appreciated!

Monica

[swittenauer]

I'd be curious to know that to since my husband has horrible sinus problems. I never put the two together though.

[Guest CD_Surviver]

what do you mean by sinus issues? sinus infefctions? well i used to get sinus infections constantly and they would last about two weeks go away and then days later i would have another one. this cycle only happened in the winter for me cause i live in Ohio and the cold weather bothered me but i never thought it could be associated with celiac disease. but this last winter i didnt get these sinus infections and i dont know why but it might be because i was on a gluten-free diet because i didnt really take the diet really really seriously until about 2-3 years ago because i was so young when i had been diagnosed and didnt want to change and i didnt know all the affects until just a few years ago. i did get sick of the infectioins but i never went to te doctor to antibiotics. then in may i got my first one of the year and it was really bad so i went to the doctor and it ended up that the antibiotics i was taking was NOT garenteed gluten-free. so got sick from it and i some sort of skin rash that was horrible. so i have vowed to never take antibiotics again!

Lauren

[wolfie]

I was just saying last night (knock on wood) that I haven't had a sinus infection an a long time, very unusual for me. I used to get them all the time before going gluten-free. Is it connected? I don't know, but I am not complaining! LOL!

[dlp252]

what do you mean by sinus issues? sinus infefctions? well i used to get sinus infections constantly and they would last about two weeks go away and then days later i would have another one.

DITTO!! Except mine went all year long. I went gluten free in November and added dairy free in December and haven't had a single sinus infection since then. My nasal passages are also clearer in general, even my ENT was pleasantly surprised. Since I did both dairy and gluten so close together I am not sure which one did the trick or if it was a combo thing, but I'm just happy I am not sick any more. I spent the entire month of October and the first couple of weeks of November with strep throat, sinus infection and ear infection.

[Guest GlutenFreeGirlfriend]

My boyfriend has been gluten free for three years now, and he still has horrible problems with his sinuses. It seems like there is some kind of connection between that and Celiac.

[lindalee]

Sinus problems are fungus. They sell a sinus cleanser at the drug store that cleans them out. It looks like a aladins lamp. It is about $10. The one I use is at www.sinuscleanser.com. I bought mine at bioinnovations. Cleared mine up along with a dap of neosporum . It is difficult to get fungus off the hairs so that did the trick. Sinus problems can cause all kinds of problems. Hope that helps. LindaLee

[plantime]

My sinus infections were bacterial, and caused by swollen sinuses. When I quit eating wheat, almost all of the swelling went away, as did all of the infections. I have an allergy to grasses, though, which wheat is.

[dlp252]

Mine were also not fungal, I tried all the washes and even colloidal silver, with no relief.

[Guest GlutenFreeGirlfriend]

My boyfriend uses a Neti Pot, which he says gives him some relief if he uses it a couple times a day, but unfortunately it hasn't helped him too much. I want him to go see an ENT dr. but he's not too keen on the idea.

[trents]

About a year and a half ago I went to an ENT because of chronic congestin and post nasal drip/coughing during the night which interferred with my sleep. He did a CAT scan and showed me the films. I had infection in the right maxillary sinus and a polyp partially obstructing the outlet. I was really surprized since I wasn't having pain/pressure or the classic thick, yellow discharge at the time. This was about 1 year after celiac dx and going gluten free. The ENT put me on a long-term regimine of tetracycline (six plus months). At the end of that time I inquired about another scan to check the infection since I wasn't sure if anything had changed. He was not inclined to do that. I still have nights and days when I'm stuffy and congested but not as frequent, maybe once or twice a week. Sometimes it seems to me to be related to changes in the weather which, here in the Pacific Northwest is about every 18-24 hours during the Fall, Winter and early Spring. I also wonder if the congestion and stuffiness is related to other food sensitivities/allergies besides gluten.

Having said all that, in other respects, I'm definitely healthier since going gluten free. I used to get two or three bad colds a year before dx. I can't remember the last time I had a bad cold since going gluten free. Of course, the kids grew up and moved out of the house about that same time so that probably helped to. Less sources of germs, if you know what I mean.

[eleep]

I was once told that my on/off issues with sinusitis were based on allergies and not bacteria because the "filters" in my nose were bluish (took a while for me to figure out that this was a medical term for boogers). This made no sense to me at the time because I grew up in upstate New York where I'd had horrific hay fever in the summers and I hadn't experienced any of the same watery eye/sneezy stuff since moving to Florida for school. However, sure enough, taking Claritin during oak pollen season and using saline spray seemed to clear it all up.

This past March, however, I didn't need to do either of those things -- no sinus issues whatsoever -- and my car was covered with a layer of oak pollen so thick I could write my name on it.

[Lymetoo]

Avoid dairy for SURE if you have sinus problems. I think it's also a bad year for allergies. Has been here.

[trents]

Yea, I seem to have lots of "filters".

[lindalee]

Avoid dairy for SURE if you have sinus problems. I think it's also a bad year for allergies. Has been here.

Yes, I think the dairy causes mucus. I started avoiding that when I had the sinus issues. I went the natural way by cleansing-to stop that stuff from traveling other places on the insides. LindaLee

[jerseyangel]

I stopped eating dairy 2 years ago, and have not had any sinus problems since--I used to get them a lot before.

[azmom3]

This year I have had major sinus issues. They just clear up, I have a week break and then BAM back again.

Is this just me? Is it related due to the autoimmune nature of the disease? Allergies?

Any help is appreciated!

Monica

I'm really starting to think I am celiac after reading all these different posts as so many of these stories sound like me. My son was just diagnosed so I will be tested soon....maybe I'll finally get answers to decades of problems. I had the same sinus issues this winter. I went through 3 rounds of antibiotics over 2 1/2 months and just couldn't get the thing to clear up. It kept going from my nose, to my throat, to total chest congestion, then a day or two of some relief and it would start back in my nose again. And the headaches that went along with it....AHHHHH! And so tiring! I'm thinking my doc ended up giving me a steroid to reduce the inflammation, but I can't remember for sure. Good luck to you and I bet there is a connection!

[burdee]

I had lifelong (57 years) 'hayfever', chronic sinus allergies, constant stuffiness, postnasal drip, and frequent colds which often became sinus infections BEFORE I went off dairy. After my Enterolab diagnosis (gluten and dairy intolerance), I abstained from dairy and can BREATHE ALL THE TIME!!! I've had NO winter allergies, no sinus infections, only sore throat and runny nose from the 2 colds I developed, and much less summer allergies (sneezing and watery eyes occasionally). I still can't tolerate cat hair dander for more than a few minutes, but all my other respiratory allergies and infections disappeared after I abstained from dairy. If anybody has chronic sinus infections or allergies, get off dairy ASAP.

BURDEE

[Guest adamssa]

hello!

right now i am trying to get rid of a HORRIBLE sinus infection that i've had for months in the right nostril. no a traditional one, no mucus problems but still the pain. (guess I will have to suck it up and flush with salt). sinusbuster (sinusbuster.com) and D-Hist have helped a lot though, but still haven't managed to kill it. it does seem to me like there is some connection between celiac and sinus problems, it seems like celiac can give you problems all over your body. but, just so u know i haven't got an official celiac diagnosis but going of gluten has helped me a lot so i'm going to get tested.

Sara

[taz sharratt]

This year I have had major sinus issues. They just clear up, I have a week break and then BAM back again.

Is this just me? Is it related due to the autoimmune nature of the disease? Allergies?

Any help is appreciated!

Monica

havent checked out the other posts yet, but i used to suffer a lot, couldnt get out of bed as too dizzy from the mucus trapped in my head, it was really bad, summer is the worst time for altho i do get in the winter the summer i was in bed an awfull lot. anyway since ive been gluten free since may this year i haventhad 1 infection yet( fingers crossed).the odd runny nose and headache but not too bead. dont know how anyone else feels but i ceratainly put it down to celiac.

[zip2play]

I am very reluctant to give up dairy. But if it will help, I may need to look into it!

Monica

[D-mentias]

I have had sinus or more likely mucus mebrane issues all my life leading to quite serious chest and sinus disease. This is most likely caused by a genetic condition called PCD or Primary Cilary dyskenesia where the hair like sweeper structutres on mucus membrane tissue work ineffectively.

Over the years this has lead me to having chronic infection causing quite serious and permanant lung damage. I have only 45% of lung function left and am unable to work.

I went gluten free after my kids were suspected of coeliac disease.One of the welcome and unexpected benefits was an improvement in lung function of about 20%. Somehow ingestion of gluten was causing inflamation in my airways.

The sini act as a filter for your airways.Swollen mucus filled sini are trying to prevent incompatable substances reach your lower airways.

I probably got both genes PCD and celiac disease. Just unlucky. But if you are sesitive to a substance your swollen congested sini are probably overwaorked trying to protect you.