Friday, April 29, 2005

acute sinusitis in 5 year old kid

A 5 year old child presenting with blocked nose, high fever on and off x 5 days. Tenderness over the maxillary region.

Clinically mouth breather, febrile and mildly dehydrated, lips were dry.

X ray of paranasal sinus, OM view and lateral showed opacities over the left maxillary sinus.

Treatment consisted iv zinacef (100mg/kg/day tds) drips for dehydration, syrup paracetamol and nasal decongestion along with zyrtec oral drops 5mg bd (10drops) bd.

The child made rapid recovery and was afebrile the next day.
Nasal congestion improved and the child was able to breath more freely through the nose

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My name is Susan Carey and i would like to show you my personal experience with Zyrtec.

I am 40 years old. Have been on Zyrtec for 5 days now. The five times I took this medicine i felt extreme anxiety, depressed, and wild moodiness. I don't commonly feel any of these symptoms. It was really awful. It wasn't until I looked online and saw other people saying the same sort of things that I concluded it was this medicine.

I have experienced some of these side effects –
anxiety, depression, and mood swings

I hope this information will be useful to others,
Susan Carey