Dry nasal mucosa

Dry nasal mucosa is a very common phenomenon. Most symptoms like this are caused by dry rhinitis, which often occurs when being blown down by the wind or in dry air. Especially after using air conditioning, it is most likely to cause dry and bleeding noses. Therefore, you must pay attention to the problem of nasal mucosal erosion and find appropriate treatment methods. Never let the nasal mucosal erosion become more and more serious.

Treatment/dry rhinitis

1. Eliminate the cause of the disease. Improve environmental conditions by reducing dust, cooling down, and ventilating the environment, and strengthen personal protection, such as wearing masks and showers.

Nasal wash and other measures.

(ii) Topical application: oily nasal drops, such as compound peppermint oil, liquid paraffin or nasal ointment. Care should be taken not to use vasoconstrictors.

(III) Take cod liver oil capsules orally, 2 capsules, 3 times a day; vitamin B2, 10 mg, 3 times a day.

Complications/dry rhinitis

When rhinitis is not treated in time and affects the olfactory mucosa, olfactory disorders will occur, resulting in the inability to smell fragrance or odors. When long-term recurrent sinusitis is not treated in time, the inflammation will spread to adjacent organs and tissues, and may lead to complications such as frontal bone osteomyelitis, orbital bone wall osteomyelitis and periostitis, orbital wall subperiosteal abscess, orbital cellulitis, retrobulbar optic neuritis, epidural abscess, subdural abscess, purulent meningitis, brain abscess, cavernous sinus thrombosis and other critical emergencies.

TCM Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment/Sichuan Rhinitis

1. Dryness and evil damage to the nose

Main symptoms: dryness, burning sensation, foreign body sensation in the nose, and sometimes bloody nasal discharge. The nasal mucosa is dry, and there is often a little crusting on the front of the inferior turbinate.

The area below the septum is dry and red, or there is an itchy throat, dry cough, and dry mouth with a desire to drink. The tongue is reddish with little coating, and the pulse is thin and slightly rapid.

Treatment method: Clear dryness, promote lung function, nourish yin and produce body fluid.

Prescription for treating dry rhinitis: Qingzao Jiufei Decoction (from "Medical Law" frosted mulberry leaves, gypsum, sesame seeds, ginseng, licorice, loquat leaves, donkey-hide gelatin, Ophiopogon japonicus, and almonds) with modifications. The ginseng in the prescription can be replaced with Adenophora strychnos, and for those with nosebleeds, add Radix Codonopsis pilosula, Rhizoma Imperatae, and stir-fried Pollen Typhae, and for those with dry stools, add Rhizoma Curcumae and Fructus Hempe seeds.

2. Yin deficiency and dry nose syndrome

Main symptoms: dryness and itching in the nose. Burning sensation, occasional small amount of epistaxis, dry nasal mucosa, dry and red nasal septum with a few crusts, dry mouth and throat, sore waist and knees, red tongue with little coating, and thready pulse.

Prescription for treating dry rhinitis: Lily Gujin Decoction (from "Yi Fang Ji Jie" lily, raw rehmannia, cooked rehmannia, ophiopogon, angelica, white peony, Fritillaria cirrhosa, Scrophularia, Platycodon, and licorice).