The Sinus Cure: 7 Simple Steps to Relieve Sinusitis and Other Ear, Nose, and Throat Conditions

by Debra Fulghum Bruce, Murray Grossan

From an award-winning medical writer and a board-certified otolaryngologist comes the definitive guide for sinus sufferers, revised and updated with additional medical treatments.

If you're one of the thirty-eight million who endure from sinus problems, you know the debilitating effects this condition can bring—from pounding headaches, runny nose, and chronic fatigue to asthma, halitosis, even serious lung disease and meningitis. The good news is that sinus disease can be dramatically alleviated and permanently reversed. Now, after years of research, interviews, and personal and professional experience, Debra Fulghum Bruce and Murray Grossan, M.D., share cures from the top healthcare specialists and patients . . . cures that really work.

In clear, authoritative language, The Sinus Cure explains how you can easily design a highly effective 7-step sinus healing program to help you get a long-lasting grip on your own particular symptoms. Inside you'll

• Alternative and complementary healing options—homeopathy, herbs, t'ai chi, yoga, and other ancient and New Age strategies
• The foods that trigger sinusitis—and the ones that soothe it
• Nutritional and natural supplements that reduce swelling and inflammation
• Proven methods for clearing the air you breathe of dust mites, mold, damp, and other allergens
• Effective sinus hygiene, including the wonder of nasal irrigators
• Exercises that can act as a decongestant
• Helpful (and not-so-helpful) prescription or over-the-counter medications
• The startling truth about sinus surgery
• How to combine the most effective medical and natural treatments to end your sinus symptoms

Although further medical research is needed to completely eradicate sinusitis, the treatments and medications described here, most without any side effects, will greatly reduce or end your sinus problems. So breathe easy. Relief is here!

Genres: Health

336 pages, Paperback

First published February 27, 2001

About the author

Author Deb Bruce is a graduate of the University of South Florida School of Communications in Tampa, Florida. As a prolific communicator who has mastered her craft, Deb was recently chosen as the Outstanding Alumnus of the Year (1998) by the University of South Florida for her journalism contributions.

She has a fresh but persuasive writing style, publishing more than 2,500 feature articles in such magazines as Woman's Day, Prevention, and Success. As former Editor of Living Well Today, Deb has written 40 books, working with editors of such major houses as Ballentine, Bantam, Macmillan USA, Dell, Simon & Schuster, Avon, W. W. Norton, John Wiley, Dutton, Kensington, and Henry Holt.

Current promotional ventures include ongoing weekly seminars given by coauthors, as well as a new fitness video entitled Flexible Fitness: An Arthritis Workout, featuring actress Linda Lavin, star of Broadway's Gypsy and the television sitcom Alice, and distributed through Daniel Edelman Agency, New York. Features and excerpts from her many books have recently appeared in such popular mass-market magazines as Vogue, Prevention, Men's Health, McCall's, US News and World Report, Redbook, New Choices, Mature Outlook, Woman's Day, Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Glamour, Walking, Cooking Light, Shape, and Woman's World Weekly. Her coauthors have appeared on numerous programs including CNN News, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and the Today Show , as well as radio and television talk shows. Her book I'd Kill for a Cookie was chosen by USA TODAY as one of the Top 10 Health Books in l997.

Specializing in health and spiritual collaborations, Deb has 15 years of experience working with renowned specialists in the fields of psychology, gerontology, rheumatology, cardiology, pulmonology, sleep medicine, pediatrics, ophthalmology, internal medicine, nutrition, urology, and psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). Deb's energy, tenaciousness, and inquisitive manner enable her to create health books of the finest quality, and she has an inherent ability to work well with coauthors and editors.

Reviews

[Leslie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book had some good tips for preventing sinus problems and removing sinus and allergy triggers. There is also a section on recommended foods and supplements. However, the chapter on nasal irrigation sounded like an infomercial for a particular product. Also disappointing was a very tiny chapter on what to do if your doctor recommends surgery. Overall, the book has good suggestions for dealing with chronic sinus and allergy problems.

[Abdullah Mothana Obadi Ali Al Yemen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very educational book helpful and open my eye very good read

[Clare · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading this - finding lots good information - some I didn't even know. Hopefully we can put to good use. Looks at tests available, allergies, sinus washes, foods to boost sinuses, dif between sinusitis and rhinitis...let you know if it works - written by MDs and gives more information than you get in appointments.

[Jennifer]

didn't help me like i'd hoped it would, lol.

[Jane · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's snot great, but it's snot terrible either. ;)

There is no "cure" but it's somewhat comforting to read that foods you eat can help and that saline rinses are so helpful for cilia.