The causes of runny nose with foul smell usually include nasal foreign bodies, sinusitis and nasal malignant tumors, etc., which need to be clarified to give targeted treatment.
1. Prolonged nasal foreign body may be accompanied by infection, which in turn causes the phenomenon of runny nose with foul odor, so the first need to go to the otolaryngology department to improve the nasal endoscopy to exclude the possibility of nasal foreign body.
2. Sinusitis can be divided into acute sinusitis, chronic sinusitis and fungal sinusitis, which can cause a runny nose with foul odor, and serious cases will be mixed with blood.
3. Nasal malignant tumors usually have unilateral runny nose with foul smell, if the tumor is suspected, a biopsy is usually needed for pathological examination to make a clear diagnosis.
If you have a runny nose with foul odor, you can go to the hospital in time and follow the doctor’s instructions for reasonable treatment.