Treatment of inferior turbinate hypertrophy

Hypertrophy of the inferior turbinate is generally caused by many nasal diseases. Many patients do not understand this type of disease and treat it as ordinary rhinitis. The results are often unsatisfactory. Some even become more serious, leading to a decrease in body resistance, nerve disorders, and affecting the function of the nasal cavity, thus seriously affecting our normal life and study. The following are several common treatment methods. Let us learn together.

(i) The use of vasoconstrictor nasal drops is limited to mild cases.

(ii) Injection of sclerosant under the inferior turbinate mucosa. The mechanism of action is that after the sclerosant is injected, a chemical inflammatory reaction can occur locally, resulting in scars.

tissue, reduce the size of the nasal concha and improve ventilation.

(iii) Submucosal electrocoagulation of the thickened mucosal tissue under the inferior turbinate causes the scar to shrink.

(IV) Cryosurgery is to place a special cryoprobe on the surface of the inferior turbinate to freeze the nasal mucosa for 1 to 2 minutes each time, causing the diseased mucosa to necrotize and fall off, and regenerate mucosa.

membrane.

(V) Surgical treatment: If general treatment is ineffective, or the mucosa is significantly thickened, or the thickened part is located at the posterior end or lower edge of the inferior turbinate, partial resection of the inferior turbinate may be performed.

Turbinate or partial middle turbinate resection. The inferior turbinate should not be removed too much, and in principle should not exceed 1/3 of the inferior turbinate, so as not to affect the function of the nasal mucosa or cause secondary atrophy.

Rhinitis. For patients with bony hypertrophy, inferior turbinate muco-subperiosteal resection is recommended, which can improve nasal ventilation and drainage without damaging the physiological function of the nasal mucosa.

(VI) Appropriate treatment shall also be given to chronic systemic diseases or adjacent lesions such as deviated nasal septum or sinusitis.

Patients with hypochondriasis must not feel inferior but also cannot ignore this type of disease. Through the above treatment methods, we will have a normal sense of smell like normal people. In addition, increasing physical exercise and eating more fruits and vegetables will also be beneficial to the recovery of the condition. Friends, take action, stay away from diseases, move towards health, and live a happy life.