Chronic hypertrophic rhinitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the nasal cavity characterized by limited or diffuse hypertrophy of the mucosa, submucosa, and even bone. The degree of mucosal thickening varies across the nasal cavity and is usually heaviest in the inferior turbinate, with nodular or mulberry-like hypertrophy or polypoid changes in the anterior, posterior and inferior edges of the inferior turbinate and the anterior middle turbinate. Common clinical manifestations are: 1, persistent nasal congestion, progressive nasal congestion: persistent nasal congestion refers to the presence of nasal congestion on both sides for a long period of time, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, but rarely when there is a clear; progressive nasal congestion refers to a period of time of several months or more than a year, with the extension of time, nasal congestion is getting heavier.
2, accompanied by a small amount of nasal discharge, mostly viscous, white or also slightly yellow.
3.More often accompanied by obvious loss of smell, obvious speech with nasal sound, or cause headache.
4.The diagnosis can be made based on the above symptom characteristics, long duration of the disease and examination with anterior rhinoscopy, hypertrophy and unevenness of the turbinates and insensitivity to 1% ephedrine contraction reaction. No special examination (CT) can be performed. If there is a history of long-term use of decongestant nasal drops and dependence on such drugs (nasal passage improves with medication, nasal congestion is severe without medication, and the time interval between medications is getting shorter and shorter), then the diagnosis of drug rhinitis can be made.