Whether it is okay to have a bump on the larynx needs to be judged in conjunction with the severity of the bump and the patient’s clinical symptoms. The common trauma can be divided into: laryngeal soft tissue contusion, thyroid cartilage fracture, laryngeal nerve injury and so on.
1. Laryngeal soft tissue contusion: If the force of the impact itself is not large, the patient only shows local pain, no dyspnea, hoarseness, hemoptysis and other manifestations, it should not be too much of a problem, considering the possibility of laryngeal soft tissue contusion. Can local cold compress, rest or with anti-inflammatory analgesic drugs symptomatic treatment.
2. Thyroid cartilage fracture: If the impact strength is large, such as car accidents, blunt force injuries, etc., may cause thyroid cartilage fracture, at this time the patient may have more serious symptoms of neck pain, accompanied by dysphagia, dyspnea, and even hoarseness, hemoptysis and so on. This situation needs to go to the hospital in time, symptomatic anti-inflammatory, hemostasis, swelling, if necessary, surgical treatment.
3. Laryngeal nerve injury: the more common is the laryngeal recurrent nerve injury, patients in addition to localized swelling and pain symptoms, mainly manifested as hoarseness, choking on food and drink. It is necessary to improve the electronic laryngoscopy, laryngeal electromyography and other tests in time to assess the degree of nerve damage. In the conservative treatment at the same time, ready to surgical exploration of nerve decompression or nerve function reconstruction possible.
So if the laryngeal node is hit whether something is wrong, but also need to be analyzed with the specific circumstances, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner to the hospital, the line of the necessary relevant examinations to clarify the diagnosis.