Can rhinitis cause sore throat?

The change of seasons is a very scary period for patients with rhinitis, because most of them will have their rhinitis symptoms aggravated during the change of seasons, and rhinitis will affect a person's normal life, because rhinitis can cause a person to become listless and have a loss of appetite. Moreover, the symptoms of each rhinitis patient are somewhat different. Some patients find that they have a sore throat after the onset of rhinitis. So can rhinitis cause a sore throat?

Rhinitis does cause sore throat, but this is because viruses or bacteria develop downward and inward from the nasal cavity, affecting the pharynx or tonsils.

Rhinitis is an inflammatory disease of the nasal cavity. It is an inflammation of the nasal mucosa caused by viruses, bacteria, allergens, various physical and chemical factors, and certain systemic diseases. The main pathological changes of rhinitis are congestion, swelling, exudation, hyperplasia, atrophy or necrosis of the nasal mucosa.

1. Symptoms

(1) Nasal congestion Nasal congestion is characterized by intermittent nature. Nasal congestion is relieved during the day, in hot weather, while working or exercising, but is aggravated at night, when sitting still or in cold weather. Another characteristic of nasal congestion is its alternation. When lying on your side, the lower nasal cavity is blocked, but the upper nasal cavity is well ventilated. Due to nasal congestion, there may be occasional symptoms such as decreased sense of smell, headache, dizziness, and nasal speech.

(2) Excessive discharge is often mucous or mucopurulent, and occasionally purulent. Purulence often occurs after secondary infection.

(3) Decreased sense of smell is mostly caused by two reasons: one is swelling of the nasal mucosa and nasal congestion, which prevents airflow from entering the olfactory area; the other is that the olfactory mucosa is stimulated by chronic inflammation for a long time, resulting in a decrease or disappearance of the olfactory function.

(4) Headache and dizziness Chronic sinusitis is often manifested by a feeling of heaviness in the head.

(5) Systemic symptoms: Most people also experience headaches, loss of appetite, fatigue, memory loss, and insomnia.

2. Types of rhinitis

There are many kinds of rhinitis symptoms, depending on the type of rhinitis, the symptoms of rhinitis are also different:

(1) Chronic rhinitis causes long-term intermittent or alternating nasal congestion, leading to dizziness and headache, which seriously affects sleep, work and study. Mucopurulent nasal discharge often flows back into the pharynx, causing cough and excessive sputum.

(2) Acute rhinitis

① Initial 1 to 2 days. Patients often experience general discomfort, chills, fever, loss of appetite, headache, etc. Dryness and burning sensation in the nasal cavity and nasopharynx, itching in the nose, and frequent sneezing.

②The acute phase lasts 2 to 5 days. Existing symptoms worsen. The body temperature of adults is around 38 degrees, while that of children is as high as over 39 degrees. Vomiting, diarrhea, coma and even convulsions often occur due to high fever.

(3) Drug-induced rhinitis: Long-term use of various rhinitis drugs or lasers or surgeries that damage the nasal mucosa can lead to persistent nasal congestion and frequent nosebleeds.

(4) Atrophic rhinitis causes foul-smelling breath and nasal secretions in the form of lumps and tubular pus crusts that are difficult to blow out. When dry crusts are picked out with force, there is a small amount of nose bleeding. It is often mistaken for rhinitis in the early stages of a cold. When the weather turns cold, some patients sneeze and have a runny nose continuously after getting up in the morning. When the temperature difference is large, their nose is blocked. They mistakenly think they have a cold and take some cold medicine casually, which makes their condition worse.