Dr. Stanley Goldstein is director of both Allergy and Asthma Care of Long Island and Island Medical Research in Rockville Centre, N.Y.
“We really don’t know what’s going on,” said Goldstein, who was not involved in the study.
“I do see plenty of people with sinusitis that complain of what they describe as headaches, or some kind of pressure in the head. Something going on in the brain, so to speak,” he said.
“I can’t speak to a neurological point of view,” Goldstein stressed. “But yes, maybe sinusitis patients have some kind of predisposition to the brain-fog issue. Maybe it’s somehow related to localized inflammation.”
But for the moment, he reiterated, “we just don’t know.”
The study was published online recently in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
More information
There’s more on sinusitis at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
