What’s wrong with the nose always smelling dust?

The nose always smells of dust, there may be the following situations, the first is that there is really too much dust in the outside environment, the air is bad induced by the patient to appear this feeling, this is a very normal performance. The second situation is that the patient may have atrophic rhinitis, dry rhinitis, chronic sinusitis, nasal cavity long things such as induced nasal cavity local erosion, ulceration, infection, nasal cavity protein decay, nasal cavity neoplastic decay and so on appear abnormal smell, including the smell of dust and so on. Generally this condition suggests going to ENT department for nasal endoscopy and also sinus CT examination to assess the characteristics and nature of the nasal disease and treat it symptomatically. The third condition is that some patients have abnormal smell, which may be a transient phantom smell. The cause of this condition is not clear, it may be related to the abnormal function of olfactory nerve cells, it is recommended that patients go to ENT department for a systematic judgment.