Rhinitis with a runny nose is treated differently depending on the cause. Common treatment modalities include medication, surgery, etc., which need to be targeted according to the type of rhinitis in the patient.
1. Acute rhinitis: at the beginning of the dry and itchy feeling in the nose, there will be watery nasal discharge, nasal congestion and other symptoms. The main use of local and systemic medication.
Nasal decongestants can be used to shrink the nasal mucosa, reduce nasal congestion and improve symptoms such as runny nose, commonly used drugs such as naphazoline hydrochloride drops, hydroxymetazoline hydrochloride drops, etc. Nasal glucocorticosteroids can also be used as anti-inflammatory agents, such as budesonide nasal spray. If there is bacterial infection, antibiotics can be used for systemic treatment, such as azithromycin tablets.
2. Chronic rhinitis: including allergic rhinitis, non-allergic rhinitis and atrophic rhinitis, which are usually treated with drugs and surgery.
(1) Drug treatment: chronic rhinitis commonly used nasal glucocorticoids, such as beclomethasone propionate nasal aerosol; nasal decongestants, such as furosemide drops; oral antihistamines, such as loratadine tablets.
(2) Surgical treatment: if the effect of drug treatment is not good, then surgical treatment can be carried out, for allergic rhinitis can be used for pterygoid neurectomy, for chronic hypertrophic rhinitis can be used for inferior turbinate partial resection.
Rhinitis runny nose, it is recommended that patients seek medical treatment in a timely manner, after the cause of the disease is clear in the doctor’s guidance under the standardized and reasonable treatment.