As far as sinusitis-nasal polyps are concerned, they are one of the common clinical diseases in otolaryngology, and the age of onset of nasal polyps is mostly in middle-aged people, with men slightly higher than women. The exact cause of nasal polyps is still unclear, but it is believed that chronic rhinitis and allergic rhinitis are the main causes.
After the onset of nasal polyps increase in size to prevent sinus ventilation and drainage, resulting in poor drainage of sinus secretions, aggravating sinusitis, so that the cause and effect of each other, forming a vicious circle. Nasal polyps can cause many complications, such as pharyngitis, otitis media and heart, lung and other organ function damage, and some may even malignant; a few huge polyps can cause invasive complications. Those fast-growing and huge polyps can squeeze and damage the sinus wall or the parietal wall of the nasal cavity, and then invade the orbit and frontal sinus.
The common symptoms of nasal polyps are: 1, nasal congestion, mostly persistent, sneezing rarely, but if the nasal mucosa has a metabolic inflammation, sneezing, clear snot may also occur.
2, nasal polyps patients secretions are mostly viscous, if the complication of infection can have purulent secretions.
3.Initially, there seems to be nasal snot that cannot be blown in the nose. At night, there can be obvious nasal congestion and open-mouth breathing, which can be followed by chronic pharyngitis.
4.The nasal polyp that continues to grow makes the nasal congestion significantly worse, and can cause headache or dizziness, loss of smell or even loss of smell.
5, huge polyps, if blocking the posterior nostril or even protrude into the nasopharynx, can also cause hearing loss.
Treatment of nasal polyps: (1) early smaller nasal polyps can be considered drug therapy, mainly for nasal hormone nasal spray treatment, but the time course is longer.
(2) Endoscopic nasal and sinus surgery. With the help of precise imaging system of nasal endoscope, doctors can accurately and thoroughly remove nasal polyps and open up the poor sinus drainage to achieve the purpose of treating sinusitis – nasal polyps.
Finally, Dr. Liu reminded us that nasal polyp treatment is ultimately a comprehensive treatment, generally on the basis of surgical treatment, and then given medication, can achieve complete, to prevent recurrence of the purpose, do not think that everything is fine after surgery, yo.