Can rhinitis cause otitis media?

In real life, rhinitis is a very common nasal disease. People with rhinitis will develop lesions in the nasal mucosa, or redness and swelling of the capillaries. Rhinitis can also easily lead to some complications, such as otitis media and other inflammations. It can be treated by taking medication, including some anti-inflammatory drugs, and be careful not to catch a cold.

Can rhinitis cause otitis media?

Typical symptoms of rhinitis include itchy nose, sneezing, runny nose, etc. Complications often include itchy eyes, itchy ears, etc. Sometimes it can cause other inflammations such as pharyngitis, otitis media, etc. Rhinitis is related to one's own constitution, and it is difficult to change a person's constitution.

It is recommended to use traditional Chinese medicine to treat rhinitis. Pure Chinese medicine extracts can be used.

If children's rhinitis is not treated in time, it is necessary to consider whether complications may occur. The most common complications of rhinitis in children are adenoids, sinusitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, and otitis media. When children suffer from rhinitis, nasal inflammatory stimulation can easily cause acute adenoids. Long-term inflammatory stimulation can lead to adenoids hypertrophy and a special "adenoid facies", which affects physical and intellectual development.

If chronic suppurative sinusitis does not heal for a long time, it can easily cause osteomyelitis of the frontal, sphenoid, ethmoid and maxillary bones. It is common in frontal bone osteomyelitis. In addition to tenderness in the sinus area, the headache is characterized by dull pain like stuffiness and distension. If osteomyelitis does not heal for a long time, there may be yellow-green nasal discharge, and X-rays may show unclear bone structure, dead bone formation, and defects in the sinus bone wall.

Severe orbitocranial complications.

When you have rhinitis, using Chinese medicine prescriptions such as 10 grams of Astragalus and 12 grams of Magnolia flower can relieve this condition.

1. Rhinogenic intracranial complications

The top wall of the nasal cavity, the posterior wall of the frontal sinus, and the top wall of the ethmoid sinus are all adjacent to the brain. If there is a congenital defect, the nasal mucosa will stick to the dura mater, so infections of the nose and sinuses can directly spread to the skull and cause intracranial complications. The frontal sphenoid vein drains into the superior sagittal sinus, the sphenoid vein drains into the cavernous sinus, the olfactory nerve sheath is continuous with the dura mater, and there is potential communication between the subthecal space and the subdural space; while the frontal sinus mucosal vein is connected with the veins of the dura mater and arachnoid membrane. When the nose and sinuses are infected, such as acute rhinitis or sinusitis, and the body's immunity is reduced, bacteria can enter the skull through the above pathway along the subsheath space of the olfactory nerve in the form of retrograde extension of thrombophlebitis.

Among the rhinogenic intracranial complications caused by sinusitis, frontal sinusitis is the most common, followed by sphenoid sinusitis, ethmoid sinusitis and polysinusitis, and maxillary sinusitis is the rarest. It may manifest as epidural abscess, subdural abscess, brain abscess, cavernous sinus thrombosis, etc. Rhinogenic intracranial complications are more serious intracranial lesions. Once they occur, the consequences are serious and may even lead to death. Therefore, prevention should be the priority. Avoid nasal surgery in case of acute rhinitis and sinusitis. Do not scrape the mucosa against the bone wall during sinus surgery to avoid bone wall infection and osteomyelitis. In case of sinusitis, attention should be paid to smooth sinus drainage and the packing should not be left in place for too long. In case of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, sufficient antibiotics that can easily pass through the blood-brain barrier should be used in a timely manner. In addition, swimming and diving are not recommended when you have an upper respiratory tract infection.