Chili peppers should not be eaten for rhinitis because they can induce or directly stimulate the appearance of rhinitis symptoms, leading to exacerbation of rhinitis or secondary to other complications. Commonly associated rhinitis include: acute rhinitis, allergic rhinitis, vasomotor rhinitis and so on.
1. Acute rhinitis: when the disease is in the attack period, there are symptoms such as dry nose, itchy nose, sneezing, nasal congestion, runny nose, etc. After eating chili peppers, the above symptoms are often stimulated by capsaicin contained in chili peppers, and nasal secretion increases, and the symptoms are aggravated.
2. Allergic rhinitis: the nasal mucosa of patients with this disease is often in a highly reactive state, and under the effect of spicy stimulating food such as chili peppers, allergic rhinitis is induced by the common nasal itching, sneezing, running nose and nasal congestion and other discomforts. Mucus secretion more caused by tracheal irritation symptoms, often caused by coughing, pharyngeal itching, coughing up phlegm and other inflammatory reactions in the throat.
3. vasomotor rhinitis: this disease is mostly caused by autonomic dysfunction, parasympathetic sensitivity increases, in the chili pepper excitation, often can be manifested with allergic rhinitis similar symptoms.
When suffering from rhinitis, can not eat chili, after the disease is recommended to actively seek medical treatment, systematic standardized treatment.