Sinus Yeast Infections

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Indexed  June 7, 2011

In an article published October 2008, Mayo Clinic researchers have proposed that most chronic sinus infections may be caused by an immune system response to fungus. Many studies at the Mayo Clinic have added evidence to the thinking that chronic rhinitis is caused by an immune reaction to fungus in the nose. The original study was published in September 1999 and has been reproduced and confirmed by a sinus Center in Europe. Currently Mayo Clinic has 16 further studies being done to investigate the role of fungus in an inflammatory disease of the respiratory tract. Other researchers found that certain white blood cells are reacting to the fungus and producing the kind of inflammation seen in the sinuses. Researchers have found that healthy people did not have ...   See the complete post here