 [ Symptoms ] i have severe sinus infection acute frontal sinusitis what are my next steps [ Disease ] the main goal is eradicate the infection decrease the severity and duration of symptoms and prevent complications these goals are achieved through the provision of adequate drainage and appropriate systemic treatment of the likely bacterial pathogens use of intravenous antibiotics and mucolytic agents along with topical and systemic decongestants for 3 5 days may be needed a d surgixal treatment if the conservative treatment fails but this rarely occurs