The Detroit News.
Acute sinusitis is an inflammation of membranes lining the sinuses.
It affects perhaps 20 million U.S. adults and children a year and is among the most common childhood ailments for which antibiotics are routinely prescribed. The study, which involved 161 children who had up to four weeks of symptoms and were diagnosed with acute sinusitis, appears in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics. The results echo research in adults and follow recommendations issued in March by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.