Swollen nose that hurts when pressed may be related to rosacea, boils, nasal vestibulitis and other causes.
1. Rosacea: Rosacea is a common chronic inflammatory skin disease that occurs on the face and can lead to vasodilatation of blood vessels in the nose as well as around the sebaceous glands of the hair follicles, papules, pustules, and so on, which in turn cause pain when pressed can be treated with topical medications such as erythromycin ointment, fusidic acid cream, brimonidine tartrate gel, and so on.
2. boils: boils are acute suppurative inflammation of hair follicles and deep surrounding tissues, usually caused by pathogenic bacterial infections, patients will have redness and swelling around the nose, pustules, etc., which will cause pain when pressed on the nose, and can be treated with topical medications such as ichthammol ointment, tincture of iodine, and mupirocin ointment.
3. Nasal vestibulitis: Nasal vestibulitis is a diffuse inflammation of the nasal vestibular skin, due to the increase in nasal secretions, will stimulate the nasal vestibular skin, making the nose appear swollen, pain, can be recommended by the doctor to use amoxicillin capsule, chlortetracycline hydrochloride ointment, and other medications to relieve.
When the nose feels swollen and painful when pressed, daily attention should be paid to a light diet, and promptly go to the hospital to check the symptomatic treatment.