Relieve Sinus Pressure in Temples
Feeling sinus pressure build up in your temples can make your whole head feel like it is about to crack wide open. There are a few good remedies that use some pretty basic household items that can help you to relieve this pressure and to keep your head from feeling like a stuffy, air filled balloon.
Instructions
1. Take some over the counter headache medicine immediately. There are a lot of different types like Advil, Tylenol, and Ibuprofen that can help you deal with the pain in your temples. Ibuprofen is one of the strongest so you may want to just take four of those. You may also want to try taking some medicine designed to help with sinus pressure such as Sudafed, Benadryl, and Comtrex.
2. Run the hot water in your shower as hot as you can possibly stand it. Give the shower time to build up a good healthy amount of steam before you jump in. Allow the steam to fill up the entire bathroom. After your shower, just sit in the bathroom for a while until all the steam is gone. This should help to open you up and relieve some of the sinus pressure.
3. Take a thick layer of menthol cream (something like Vicks) and apply it to your temples. Gently massage the cream into the skin until it vanishes. After a few minutes the cream will start burning. Do not be alarmed, as this is simply the cream doing its job to help you with the headache.
4. Warm up a heating pad and place a towel across the pad. This will prevent you from burning your skin. Fold and place the heating pad across your forehead and eyes for around 25 minutes.
5. Crank up a humidifier. Fill your humidifier with water and allow it to turn the water into a vapor mist. Place a blanket over your head and over the humidifier. Breathe the vapor in for as long as you can, and then remove the blanket. Repeat as needed.
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