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Is there a link between sinusitis and pneumonia?

Two weeks ago I was diagnosed with acute sinusitis. After a full course of Amox, nothing has improved.
In fact, this morning I felt worse than before and decided to see my GP again.
He said that I might have pneumonia and prescribed a new set of stronger antibiotics and sent me to hospital for an X-Ray.

Is there any chance that a lung infection and or pneumonia has developed as a result of sinusitis or did having sinusitis 'helped' the pneumonia develop?

Firstly the evidence is that antibiotic therapy has little effect on the outcome of sinusitis. In both treated and untreated groups about 75% of patients have had resolution of symptoms within 2 weeks, with the remaining 25% still being symptomatic.

There is no direct link between sinusitis and pneumonia, however a significant percentage of patients with VIRAL, not bacterial, disease of the respiratory mucosa, which extends from the nasal mucosa to the fine tissue if the lungs, will get both nasal and chest signs and syptoms, neither of these is affected by antibiotics either.

Both can be caused by a bacterial infection.

Names like sinusitis and pneumonia are handy ways of describing sets of symptoms, but they don't indicate the cause. It's possible that you have suffered a severe bacterial infection and that's caused both sets of symptoms. On the other hand, the sinusitis could be a fungal infection and completely unrelated to the pneumonia.

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