There is no clinical method to quickly restore the sense of smell, and the abnormal sense of smell is mostly considered to be caused by allergic rhinitis, sinusitis, influenza and other diseases, and patients need to follow the doctor’s instructions for medication, surgical treatment, and so on.
1. Allergic rhinitis: Usually, patients need to follow the doctor’s instructions to use cetirizine, loratadine and other antihistamines, but also with the use of budesonide, mometasone furoate and other glucocorticosteroid drugs. And some patients can also be treated with decongestants such as oxymetazoline.
Meanwhile, mast cell stabilizers such as sodium cromoglycate and leukotriene receptor antagonists such as montelukast are effective in the disease. If the patient has inferior turbinate hyperplasia and hypertrophy, then also need to follow the doctor’s orders for inferior turbinate resection.
2. Sinusitis: usually patients need to follow the doctor’s instructions to use amoxicillin, cefaclor antibiotic drug treatment, and also need to be used with furosemide nasal drops, hydroxymethazoline nasal drops nasal decongestant or budesonide nasal spray intranasal glucocorticoid treatment. If necessary, it is also necessary to follow the medical advice for endoscopic sinus surgery.
3. Influenza: patients with high fever can use ibuprofen and other antipyretic drugs as prescribed by the doctor, and cough and phlegm symptoms of serious patients also need to be combined with the use of aminoglutethimide, acetylcysteine and other cough and phlegm medicine treatment. At the same time, severe patients also need to use oseltamivir, paramivir and other antiviral drugs, and patients also need to pay attention to rest, keep indoor air ventilation, drink more water.
It is recommended that patients with abnormal sense of smell have other possibilities, such as atrophic rhinitis, tumors, etc., and seek timely medical treatment according to the cause of the disease.