watery yellow liquid from nose

i had gotten a severe sinus infection, nose, eyes, ears, while traveling from hotel to hotel in the past two weeks.  I looked like a mess.  after getting home, the doctor, who was away, came back and  prescribed antibiotic and decongestant.  it has begun working over the past 4 days.  today, though, all of a sudden out of the right nostril, a yellow waterly liquid (not mucus) came pouring out just as a bloody nose would.  in all my years of sinus infections and uri's i have never encountered that and it has scared the daylights out of me.  now my nostril is burning.  of course this is a sunday and we are in a rural area, very rural.  so my concern was about this being an okay thing. so i got dressed and sat there for a bit and it stopped.  thought i would google this and see if anyone else had something like this.  is it okay, is it normal?

[yellow_suns]

i am really scared!!!! i bent over to get out of my bunk bed and all of this yellow liquid just came dripping out of my right nosrtil! i am only 14! i have NO i dea what it is. the liquid is watery and when i felt it start to come i thought it a bloody nose but apperently not.

[BhumikaMD]

Hi,

This is not normal and it would be advisable to consult your doctor immediately.

Till then you could try some steam inhalation, decongestants, saline nasal drops, etc.

Do not try to clean your nose too vigorously.

Let us know about what your doctor advises.

Post us about how you are doing and if you need any further information.

Regards.

[yellow_suns]

its gone now

[PlateletGal]

You may want to consider seeing your primary care physician... just to get a routine physical and let him/her know what happened.

Best,

PlateletGal

[Tony989]

about a week ago i went to visit an old castle and as i was slowly walking down the spiral staircase I banged my head across the top. I stopped rubbed it and thought no more about it. 2 days later I woke up and blew my nose gently. Nothing untoward but as I reached forward something watery flowed uncontrollable from my left nostril. It spilt onto my fingers and as I rubbled them together it felt stick like blood. I switched the light on and saw that it was a clear watery substance with a tinge of yellow. It smelt and tasted horrible.

My nose continued to do this during the whole of the day.

When my wife came home from work I told her about this strange fluid and said that I had never experienced anything like it before.
She immediately rang the NHS Direct who asked me a lot of questions and told me to go and see my Doctor as soon as possible. Within half an hour I was at the Doctors who was concerned and arranged for me to go straight to hospital.

After about 3 to 4 hours I ghad had 3 blood tests done and lots of questions asked I was admitted to the Medical assessment ward who seemed to be concerned that the liquid may be brain fluid and said that I would be given a CT scan either that night or the following morning.
The results of my blood tests for infection was ok.
How ever the CT Scan was broken and when I saw the Consultant he said that he thought it inconceiveable that the bang of my head on the stairs could have caused brain fluid to leak through my nose.
He said that there was no reason to give me a scan(even though the scan was still not working) and referred me directly to the ENT Consultant.
The ENT Consultant said that he did not think that the fluid was brain fluid and that he was concerned that I may have Sinusitis and arranged for me to go back the following week where he would conduct some allergy tests. (this is in 2 days time).
I have not been given any decongestants or anti biotics and things have not changed. One thing that is very noticeable to me is that the liquid really smells and tastes horrible but not many people seem to have mentioned that.

The ENT Consultant said that he thought that the

[jacqui276]

This has happened to me a couple times before and now just happened again this morning. Today was worse than any other time that I had experienced (it has been years since it has happened) so I hopped on here to see if anyone else ever experiences it. I was just standing in the washroom washing my hands when the yellow-tinged liquid just started pouring out of my nose. It was dripping all over the counter and I saturated 3 kleenexes with it before it stopped. My nose is now sort of burning. I noticed a smell but not a taste. I'm a nursing student and have never heard of this happening to others before unless they are leaking spinal fluid from a basal skull fracture or something. The fluid doesn't halo when it hits material or a tissue so I'm assuming that it is not spinal fluid (and I haven't hit my head recently). I never remember to mention it to the doctor though when I do happen to go. If anyone else has found anything out from seeing a physician, I would be curious to hear the results.

[wixed]

Posting this on various threads, because they all seem to be about the same thing:

Enjoy :-)

Had the same thing - bright yellow fluid exiting left nostril, but please, nobody panic. I did (panic), and thought I was also leaking csf, but the doc called this evening and said it was probably just a cyst in the sinus cavity that burst for some reason. They're going to take a CT scan of the sinuses just to be sure, but it's probably nothing.

These things are benign more often than not (actually almost always)..; and apparently more common than anyone thought (by reading all the comments on this board). So please do yourselves a favor, relax... take a deep breath, blow your nose and get on with whatever you were doing :-) If I hear any new news after the scan, I'll pass it along.

[JUSTIII]

i have sore throat then coughing occur no hyperthermia ,, with some pain in fore head at sinuses i put ice gell and the pain gone i though that pain is just from infection in sinuses but today my nose dropped yellow watery material and um afraid that's a csf fluid or something so what to do ??

[juka13]

i also have got some liquid coming out of my nose but it is dark orange and sometimes comes out with blood my ears, eyes and my head hurts and i've been losing my balance i have hit my head before but, i have not had any injuries lateley sometimes i can't see straight i have no idea what is going on can anyone help me?