RHINITIS AND EUSTACHIAN SALPINGITIS

Abstract

THE TERM sinusitis has a definite meaning. There is a tendency, however, to use it as a grab bag, into which all problems referable to the nose are thrown. It is just as dangerous to put the word into the vocabulary of the enlisted man as is the term psychoneurosis. Preferably, it should be used with care and only after definite evaluation. Persistent purulent discharge from the upper part of the nose following the usual period of a cold in the head is the deciding point, a condition which occurs in only a relatively small percentage of personnel at the Orlando Army Air Base. The symptom complex of headache, nasal obstruction and anterior or posterior discharge of nasal mucus is usually indicative of acute catarrhal rhinitis and not of sinusitis. Cultures of discharges of nasal mucus from normal-appearing nasal passages were taken at the Orlando Army Air Base during a