Don't treat your nose as sinusitis! Be careful, it's caused by atrophic rhinitis.

Serena's nasal congestion has not improved since she caught a cold a while ago. A few months later, a lot of thick nose will flow out from the stuffy nose, which makes him feel very troubled, but he still hasn't improved after taking cold medicine. He was diagnosed with sinusitis after seeing a doctor, but he didn't get better after taking medicine for sinusitis, which made him feel very troubled.

Atrophic rhinitis, which is easily confused with sinusitis, when the nose is blocked for a period of time, some people will start to feel smelly and doubt whether they have sinusitis, but besides sinusitis, "atrophic rhinitis" will also make the nose stink.

Atrophic rhinitis is also called "smelly nose". The obvious symptom is that the nasal cavity smells bad and has a thick runny nose. Due to the contraction of nasal mucosa and turbinate close to the eyes, sensory nerves are out of balance, which makes the nasal cavity full of nasal mucus and runny nose and emits stench.

Symptoms of atrophic rhinitis

There is a bad smell in the nasal cavity, which others can smell, but it can't be smelled because of sensory nerve disorder. The nasal mucosa contracts and the space becomes larger, but it feels stuffy. Yellow-green pus appears in the nasal cavity, which will form a scab on the nasal cavity. Nose congestion. In addition to the loss of sense of smell, there will be symptoms such as nose pain and nosebleeds. It will cause dizziness, headache and other discomfort due to poor breathing. In severe cases, it will lead to depression, chest tightness, chest pain, memory loss and even increase the burden on the heart due to lack of oxygen.

However, sinusitis will also have a yellow-green thick nose, and it will also produce odor due to bacterial infection and pus discharge. However, since the nasal nerve is not atrophied, the smell itself can be heard. However, other symptoms such as nasal congestion and nosebleeds are similar to sinusitis, which can easily be treated as sinusitis, unable to prescribe the right medicine, or complicated with sinusitis, but curing sinusitis can not cure atrophic rhinitis, and the symptoms are still repeated.

How to treat atrophic rhinitis The cause of atrophic rhinitis is unclear. It may be caused by turbinate hypertrophy's operation. Excessive removal of the turbinate leads to atrophy, or it is caused by contact with bacteria, but more can't find out the cause, so we can only treat it according to the symptoms when it happens.

The main treatment is to wash the nasal cavity with normal saline, rinse the thick nose and yellow-green scab, so that the stench will not happen again, and try to prevent the atrophy of nasal mucosa. This is a conservative treatment. However, if the effect is not good, you can consider using nostril closure, that is, sewing a part of the nostrils on both sides, and improving the symptoms by changing the direction of airflow in the nasal cavity. The effect can be about 80%, but it can't be cured.

Although the incidence of atrophic rhinitis is not high, it is recommended to take good care of your nasal cavity for people with allergic rhinitis, sinusitis, chemical pollution or poor immune system, because nasal mucosa is easy to be infected and induce atrophy.

It is recommended not to pick your nose casually. When you go out and go to places with chemicals, remember to wear a mask, take more vitamins, go to bed early and get up early, and regularly ration three meals to keep the immune system healthy. At the same time, don't easily do unnecessary nasal surgery to treat allergic rhinitis and sinusitis, so as to protect your nose.