What should I do if I have a runny nose after treatment for nasopharyngeal cancer

What should I do if I continue to have a runny nose after treatment for nasopharyngeal cancer?

1. Runny nose after nasopharyngeal cancer surgery is mainly a symptom. You can communicate with the attending physician to understand the cause of the runny nose and carry out specific treatment. You should pay more attention to it in daily life, avoid symptoms caused by colds, fevers, and getting angry, and pay more attention to rest.

2. After nasopharyngeal carcinoma treatment, if you continue to have runny nose, it may be mainly caused by congestion and edema of the nasal mucosa. This is a normal phenomenon. Runny nose is sometimes caused by some irritation to your nasal mucosa.

What are the complications during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma?

Generally speaking, if a patient has nasopharyngeal cancer, he or she is likely to experience dysphagia during radiotherapy. In addition, the patient may also develop radiation stomatitis, which is mainly caused by long-term exposure to radiation. In addition, the patient may also develop radiation otitis media, hearing loss or tinnitus, and radiation osteomyelitis.

There are many complications during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and symptoms of general discomfort may occur, such as loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, etc.

Difficulty in opening the mouth is caused by radiated fibrosis of the neck muscles and masticatory muscles, so it is necessary to strengthen mouth opening and neck rotation exercises.