How to check for enlarged turbinates?

Simple turbinate hypertrophy is relatively easy to check out, such as physical examination can be observed in the patient’s nasal mucosa swelling, combined with nasal endoscopy can be observed turbinate mucosal hypertrophy or mucosal surface with mulberry-like changes; at the same time nasal ventilation function examination, nasal resistance and acoustic reflex nasal measurement can also respond to changes in nasal turbinate morphology in the nasal cavity. However, the purpose of turbinate hypertrophy examination is more to find the cause of the disease, so usually also performed sinus CT or X-ray, MRI, allergenic allergen detection and other tests, if accompanied by systemic chronic diseases, such as anemia will also be performed laboratory tests such as blood routine.