Patient: Description of condition (onset, main symptoms, hospital visited, etc.): The child is now 15 years old and had seen you during the summer vacation. At that time, the diagnosis was deviated septum. You said you could leave him alone until after 18 and then have surgery. But since then, he has always had intermittent nasal congestion and cough. The cycle is a month. I would like to know if this is related to the deviated septum. Is the deviated septum serious, what should I do?
Xiaolan Cai, Department of Otolaryngology, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University.
About 60-70% of the normal population has deviated nasal septum.
Only when a patient develops clinical discomfort symptoms associated with deviated septum (mainly nasal congestion, headache and nasal bleeding) can a deviated septum be diagnosed and surgical treatment needs to be considered.
However, when clinical symptoms of discomfort appear varies considerably from person to person.
The symptoms of your child’s cough may be related to nocturnal nasal congestion and open-mouth breathing.