Common causes of enlarged turbinates include acute nasal mucosal congestion and swelling due to acute infectious diseases of the nasal cavity such as acute rhinitis and acute sinusitis.
Enlarged turbinates may cause symptoms such as nasal congestion, runny nose, headache, and decreased sense of smell. Treatment should be specific after the cause is clear, to improve nasal ventilation, drainage as the principle, commonly used drugs are budesonide nasal spray, ephedrine nasal drops, loratadine, etc. to treat, is conducive to reducing the nasal mucosal edema, thereby alleviating the problem of turbinate enlargement or hypertrophy.
If medication is ineffective or the mucosa is too hypertrophied, surgery can be performed. Specific causes and corresponding treatments should be clearly diagnosed by a specialist after examination, and guided by standardized medication and diagnosis and treatment.