Rhinitis is generally categorized into acute rhinitis, chronic rhinitis and allergic rhinitis, etc. Different types of treatment methods are different, and there is no simplest and fastest way to treat rhinitis. Patients can follow the doctor’s instructions to relieve the condition through general treatment, medication, surgery and other ways.
1. General treatment: patients should drink plenty of hot water, eat a light diet, pay attention to rest, maintain indoor air circulation, can use nasal rinse to rinse the nasal cavity, for allergic rhinitis patients should avoid contact with pollen, dust, animal hair and other substances, can choose to wear a mask when going out.
2. Drug treatment: according to the different types of rhinitis, selective use of glucocorticoid drugs, such as budesonide, mometasone furoate, etc.; nasal decongestants, such as hydroxymetazoline, ephedrine nasal drops and other drugs to relieve the symptoms; patients with acute rhinitis are mostly caused by viral infections, can be combined with the use of antiviral drugs, such as ribavirin, amantadine, etc., and patients with allergic rhinitis need to increase the use of antihistamines, such as levocabatine hydrochloride, and the use of allergy drugs. The patients with allergic rhinitis also need to increase the use of antihistamines, such as levocabastine hydrochloride, cetirizine, loratadine and so on.
3. Surgery: Usually, acute rhinitis patients do not need surgery, and chronic hypertrophic rhinitis patients can be treated by inferior turbinate fracture displacement, inferior turbinate mucous membrane partial resection and so on. Allergic rhinitis patients can be treated by selective neurectomy, inferior turbinoplasty and other ways of surgical treatment.
It is recommended that patients strictly follow the doctor’s prescription of medication, actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment, patients should pay attention to rest in their life, to do a combination of work and rest, to prevent excessive fatigue, try to keep the indoor environment clean and appropriate humidity, correct the bad habit of blowing the nose and so on.