Rhinitis is an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity, which manifests as congestion or edema. Patients often suffer from nasal congestion, clear watery nose, nasal itching, throat discomfort, and cough. Rhinitis includes both chronic rhinitis and acute rhinitis, the latter usually referring to colds. Chronic rhinitis includes simple rhinitis, which has mild symptoms, and hypertrophic rhinitis, which has significant nasal congestion.
Allergic rhinitis is a type of rhinitis. Rhinitis caused by the body’s allergy to a substance is called allergic rhinitis and can cause a range of allergic symptoms to appear. If there are only seasonal attacks every year, the usual cause is due to pollen, willow wool, etc. The rhinitis is called seasonal allergic rhinitis; if there is no obvious seasonal difference in the onset, it is perennial allergic rhinitis, whose allergic factors include: dust mites, mold, cold air, fog, animal dander, cockroaches, smoke, perfume, food and other chemicals, mostly related to the indoor environment.
The clinical symptoms of rhinitis onset vary and are extremely harmful.
When the ventilation function of the nasal cavity is affected, breathing disorders will occur, triggering a decrease in blood oxygen concentration and affecting the function and metabolism of other tissues and organs: adults will suffer from headaches, lack of clarity and drowsiness due to rhinitis, making work efficiency low; while adolescents will suffer from lack of concentration, memory and academic performance due to symptoms such as nasal congestion and headache caused by rhinitis; due to prolonged nasal congestion without ventilation, the The patient’s inferior turbinate is enlarged, and the lack of oxygen during sleep can cause cerebral infarction, hypertension, sudden heart attack, and even sudden death at night.
When rhinitis is not treated in time and affects the olfactory mucosa, olfactory impairment can occur, resulting in the inability to smell odors and other smells.
When long-term recurrent sinusitis is not treated in time, the inflammation will spread to neighboring organs and tissues, and complications such as frontal bone, orbital bone periostitis, subperiosteal abscess, optic neuritis, and even affect the brain, forming septic meningitis, brain abscess, cavernous sinus thrombophlebitis and other critical emergencies.
The latest medical research at home and abroad confirms that 80% of nasopharyngeal cancers around the world occur in China, and about 90% of nasopharyngeal cancers are caused by the deterioration of rhinitis that is not treated for a long time.
Therefore, rhinitis should be given high priority, and prevention and treatment should be actively carried out.
Prevention and protection.
Allergic rhinitis usually cannot achieve a complete cure and the best way is prevention.
1. The most fundamental health care measure for allergic rhinitis prevention is to understand the substance that causes your allergy, i.e. the allergen, and try to avoid it.
2. Stay away from pets and do not keep pets in your own home because animal dander, saliva and proteins in urine can easily cause allergic symptoms. If you must have pets, feed animals without fur, such as sea turtles, fish, etc.
3. Pay attention to the details of life, such as wearing a mask when you go out, avoiding allergic food, turning bedding regularly, cleaning regularly, killing cockroaches and other pests in a timely manner, using wooden floor tiles instead of carpets, etc.
4. The series of preventive therapies for winter and summer diseases is an important means to avoid and reduce the incidence of disease. This year’s winter disease summer treatment was started on July 15, 20 days in the middle of this year’s volcano, you can add a treatment.
5. strengthen nutrition, enhance positive energy, and improve their resistance.
6. Strengthen exercise and improve physical fitness.
Self-care
1. nasal steam bath: put your nose over a cup of hot water, inhale deeply with force, hold for 5 seconds and then exhale the air. Do it repeatedly for about 15 minutes, twice a day.
2. Massage.
① press and knead the Yingxiang point: bend both thumbs, press the Yingxiang point with the interphalangeal joint, press hard to feel soreness and swelling, 5 minutes, 2 to 3 times a day.
②Push the root of the mountain: bend both thumbs, use the interphalangeal joints to push from the Yingxiang point to the root of the nose, 30 times, to the extent that the skin feels slightly hot, 2 to 3 times a day.
③Press the Hegu: press the opposite Hegu point with the thumb for 1 minute each, to the extent of soreness and swelling, 2 to 3 times a day.
Treatment
General medication: antihistamine paracetamol, neomineral; mast cell stabilizer trenbolone; decongestants ephedrine, Piton, epinephrine, furosemide; hormonal drugs dexamethasone ophthalmic solution, Burke’s sodium, Renocort; nasal wetting agent, etc.
Desensitization therapy, using the identified substance allergy as a desensitizer, the beginning are used in small doses for subcutaneous injection, and gradually increase the dose to the maximum tolerated amount to the maintenance amount, until the symptoms disappear. Patients treated by this method can produce a large number of specific closed antibodies in their bodies, which can play a therapeutic role. Desensitization therapy is currently the only treatment method that can possibly cure allergic rhinitis. However, the fact that there may be many allergens often limits its effectiveness.
Patients with concomitant nasal polyps should undergo surgery.
To reduce the excitability of the parasympathetic nerves in the nasal cavity, neurectomy can be performed, which has been reported to have some therapeutic effect, but it is not advocated because of the pain and the risks involved.
Obvious symptoms of nasal congestion can be treated with laser, microwave or plasma radiofrequency.
Chinese herbal medicine treatment: Chinese medicine can provide highly targeted dialectical treatment according to the different symptoms of allergic rhinitis at different times, which is effective.
Medicinal diet
White onion and red dates chicken porridge
Raw material: 10 dates, 5 white onions, 100 grams of chicken with bones, 10 grams of cilantro, 10 grams of ginger, 100 grams of round-grained rice.
Method: Boil the congee with round-grained rice, chicken, ginger and jujube, and then add white onion and cilantro to the congee, and take it with seasoning once a day.
Effects: Dispersing wind and cold with pungency
Indications: Nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose, wind-cold allergic rhinitis.
Cuscuta sinensis porridge.
Ingredients: 15 grams of cuscuta seeds, 3 grams of pungent pungent, 100 grams of round-grained rice, sugar.
Method: Wash the cuscuta seeds and pound them, then decoct them in water to remove the residue and extract the juice, add them to rice and cook the porridge.
Effects: Warming Yang and tonifying the kidney
Indications: Kidney deficiency, with nasal runny nose, frequent sneezing, itchy nose, accompanied by soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, cold body and limbs, seminal emission and premature ejaculation, nocturnal urination, etc.