Do you think nasal congestion must be cold and flu? The Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital Ear, nose and throat Han Hong, chief physician, said the nasal congestion may also be allergic rhinitis. Experts say that nasal congestion should not buy cold medicine or nasal drops, which may delay treatment or even become drug rhinitis.
Don’t treat nasal congestion as a cold Xiao Chen’s nose is a little blocked recently, nasal congestion and runny nose has been unable to get better, feel breathless, can only breathe through the mouth. Xiao Chen thought it was a common cold and bought medicine at the pharmacy to eat, but after a few days the problem of nasal congestion still did not improve, but more and more serious: can not smell, feel headache all day. When he went to the hospital, the doctor diagnosed allergic rhinitis. Because of the lack of timely and correct treatment, the condition has worsened.
There are many patients like Xiao Chen in life who mistakenly treat allergic rhinitis as a common cold and take medicine indiscriminately, leading to aggravation. In fact, in addition to the common itchy nose and sneezing, nasal congestion is also a major manifestation of allergic rhinitis. However, the nasal congestion is different from that of a cold, which is often accompanied by fever, coldness, aching limbs and other systemic symptoms, and will disappear in a week or so. In contrast, the nasal congestion of patients with allergic rhinitis lasts longer and the nasal mucosa is obviously edematous, pale, congested or light blue, while the cold does not have these symptoms.
Allergic rhinitis patients, nasal congestion symptoms are still a lot of people. According to the survey, among 3961 patients in eleven major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Nanjing, the incidence of nasal congestion is 57.7%, that is, more than half of the patients with allergic rhinitis have long-term nasal congestion symptoms. Due to nasal congestion, they have poor nasal ventilation, often feel difficult to breathe, dizziness and headache, which affects the body’s blood oxygenation over time, plus the inability to smell brings a lot of trouble to life.
The indiscriminate use of nasal drops causes drug rhinitis Experts recommend desensitization therapy for perennial allergic rhinitis with heavy symptoms, and oral anti-allergy drugs and intranasal hormone therapy for people with only occasional episodes of intermittent allergic rhinitis each year, are good choices.
Never just go to the pharmacy and buy your own medicine. Some patients often buy nasal drops from pharmacies on their own due to chronic nasal congestion and the influence of advertisements. 40% to 50% of rhinitis patients go to pharmacies to buy nasal drops on their own to help ventilate their noses. Some claim to be purely traditional Chinese medicine nasal drops, nasal spray medicine, in fact, most of them contain ephedrine, the initial use to improve nasal congestion is very obvious, nose ventilation, but a stop nasal congestion more powerful, have to long-term drops, forming a dependence, a vicious cycle, serious damage to the nasal mucosa, and eventually become drug rhinitis.
When these patients go to the hospital, the nasal cavity is often stuffed full, the turbinates are swollen and hypertrophic, accompanied by headaches, and can only be reduced through plasma radiofrequency surgery to reduce its swelling and help the nose to ventilate. In fact, the main effect of ephedrine-based nasal ventilation drugs is to constrict blood vessels, but the contraction will rebound more strongly, and patients should pay special attention to the fact that nasal decongestants should not be used for more than 7 days.