Learn how to stop them before they knock you down
If you suffer from sinus headaches, you may dread the transition to autumn—the time when sinus problems hit the hardest and most often.
Ragweed, pollen, and mold run amok in the fall, setting off reactions that inflame your sinuses and cause horrible pressure and pain. More time indoors means more dust and dander, which can spike allergies that hammer your sinuses too. And being stuck in dry, heated spaces can make it much harder for your sinuses to drain the way they’re supposed to.
On top of all that, there’s the uptick in colds and other viruses that attack your nasal passages, leading to sinusitis.
With all of this working against you, it’s the perfect time to take proactive steps to ward off sinus headaches. Because once they take hold, they can keep you sidelined for several painful days. And the best way to make sure that doesn’t happen… will surprise you.
My Face Is Killing Me!
When you’re suffering from a sinus headache, you feel it in your face, where your sinus passages are. Your sinuses are interconnected hollow spaces behind your nose, eyes, cheeks, and forehead. Air that comes in through your nose passes through your sinuses to get to your lungs.
Your sinuses create mucus to trap invaders like viruses and allergens and to keep your nose moist. When your sinuses are clear, that mucus flows freely and carts off those invaders for disposal. But sometimes allergens and viruses set off an immune reaction that triggers more and thicker mucus production. And instead of getting carried off, those invaders set up camp.
They can inflame your sinuses, making them swell so the openings get clogged up. That prevents proper drainage so the mucus gets trapped, creating sinus pressure that makes your face hurt.[1]
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You feel constant pain and pressure in your cheeks and forehead that can radiate down to your jaw or to the back of your head. You might feel like you have a terrible toothache. For some people, even the slightest movement can bring on a pain spike… and for almost everyone suffering from a sinus headache, bending forward can make you feel like screaming.
Worse yet, unlike other headaches, sinus headaches can last for days and days, leaving you as stuck as your sinus passages. And because allergies don’t disappear, and cold season lasts all fall and winter, there’s a good chance you’ll be dealing with sinus headaches for months.
Your best option: Get to the root of the problem.
What Sets Off Sinus Pain?
While things like allergens or viruses may set things in motion, your sinus symptoms are caused by immune system reactions. Your immune system is designed to protect you against foreign invaders—and sometimes it gets things wrong.
In the case of allergies, your immune system mounts a massive reaction to defend against something that’s not generally harmful to most people—something like ragweed pollen or mold spores. So while other people’s immune systems just look the other way, yours goes into overdrive whenever it comes into contact with these allergens. It sets off a response and releases histamines (immune system chemicals) that can cause symptoms like congestion and inflammation—the perfect sinus storm.
It works almost the same way with viruses. When your immune system detects bugs, it sets off a response that can cause nasal and sinus inflammation. But sometimes the virus overwhelms the immune response, leading to increased mucus production and more inflammation. That combines with damage from the virus cells themselves to make it harder for sinuses to clear, leading to sinus pressure and pain.[2,3]
So the best way to get ahead of sinus pain is to help your immune system mount balanced, proper responses.
And the answer to that lies in your gut.
How Your Gut Affects Your Sinuses
The latest research shines a light on a root cause of recurring sinus headache pain: It starts in the gut microbiome. That’s the home to trillions of bacteria, both helpful probiotics and harmful pathogens. And when your gut microbiome is out of balance and harmful pathogens outnumber beneficial probiotic bacteria—a condition called dysbiosis—it takes a toll on your whole body, and that includes your sinus passages.
An overgrowth of pathogens in the gut can cause many damaging processes in your body, including ones that lead to unbearable headache pain.[4,5] For example, pathogens can stimulate production of inflammatory proteins.[6,7]
Studies specifically show that the gut microbiome plays a key role in inflamed sinuses and sinus pain.[8,9] Research into this connection shows:
- Patients with sinus issues have less bacterial diversity in their gut microbiome[10]
- A clear link between gut dysbiosis and dysbiosis in the sinus microbiome[11]
- People with allergy-related sinus issues are more likely to have gut dysbiosis[12]
And while that may sound like you’ll have two problems to deal with, it actually makes calming your sinuses easier. Because balancing your gut microbiome can help you head off the next headache.
A Balanced Gut Equals a Balanced Immune Response
Your immune system has deep roots in your gut. After all, more than 70% of your immune system is housed there.[13] What’s more, beneficial probiotic bacteria play a key role in training your immune system, teaching it how to recognize and respond to the bad guys.[14]
A gut in dysbiosis, flooded with pathogenic bacteria, upsets immune balance and starts a chain of dysfunctional immune system reactions.[15]
So keeping your gut microbiome in healthy balance, full of a diverse population of beneficial bacteria, helps keep your immune system on the right track.[16] And the best way to do that is by supplementing with high quality spore probiotics and targeted prebiotics—the preferred food of probiotic bacteria.
Research shows that specific spore probiotics—including Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus coagulans, Bacillus indicus, and Bacillus clausii—can help increase bacterial diversity and keep your gut microbiome in healthy balance.[17,18]
And when your gut is full of a wide variety of beneficial probiotic bacteria, the right prebiotics support their survival and growth, helping them flourish. The best prebiotics nourish probiotic bacteria—but not pathogens—and include fructooligosaccharides (FOS), galactooligosaccharides (GOS), and xylooligosaccharides (XOS).[19]
So if you’re looking to stay healthy and comfortable no matter the season, take steps to keep your gut microbiome in optimal balance.
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