No, probably, a person who could calmly treat the cold. This problem gives so much discomfort that everyone tries to cope with it as soon as possible, applying strong and effective means. Applying nasal drops and sprays, many do not even think how harmful they can be. Abuse of these drugs can cause drug rhinitis - a common cold that occurs when you are accustomed to therapeutic vasoconstrictor.
Nature and signs of drug rhinitis
All medications are useful if you consume them in moderation. Dosages and periods of treatment in each instruction are not accidental. If you abuse nasal drops, for example, you can earn a serious chronic illness instead of a cure.
With medical rhinitis, the mucous membrane gradually dies off, all the necessary useful substances do not come to it. As a consequence - constantly stuffy nose. In the usual state, a special hormone, norepinephrine, is responsible for narrowing and widening of the vessels. In the body of a patient with drug rhinitis, this hormone ceases to stand out, the vessels can not keep up in tone, which is why they require doping in the form of a regular dose of a vasoconstrictor.
In some patients, medicamentous rhinitis occurs against a background of chronic vasomotor form of the disease. This disease is also called a false cold. It occurs when the regulation of the tone of blood vessels is disturbed for reasons not related to taking medications: against the background of the transmitted infection, stress, hormonal failure , certain nutritional factors.
The main symptom of drug rhinitis is a persistent cold, which is not affected by any other means, except for vasoconstricting drops or sprays. And sometimes, to relieve the condition, a patient may need a ten-fold dose of the drug.
Against the background of the common cold, other symptoms may also appear:
- deterioration (and sometimes complete extinction) of the sense of smell;
- changes in the shape of the nose (swelling, swelling);
- burning and itching in the nasal sinuses;
- severe headaches;
- snoring ;
- deterioration of sleep.
How to get rid of medical rhinitis?
To avoid all possible negative consequences of drug rhinitis and return to normal life without dependence on vasoconstrictors, treatment should be started immediately after the appearance of the first signs of the disease.
The main thing that you need to do to the patient is to give up drops and sprays. The first few days after this, breathing will be greatly hampered. But the improvement after that will not be noticed, it's simply impossible. To support the body during the treatment of medicamentous rhinitis, intranasal corticosteroids may be prescribed:
- Avamis;
- Nozaneks;
- Fliksonaz.
Surgical intervention
Treatment of medicamentous rhinitis with folk remedies
Not bad proved themselves in the treatment of medicamentous rhinitis and folk remedies:
- Pharmaceutical drops can be replaced with an agent based on aloe. The juice of the plant is diluted with water and buried in the nose no more than five times a day.
- Effective rinsing of the nose infusion of chamomile.
- One of the simplest means - a laundry soap. They need to lubricate the nasal passages several times a day.
- Restore the mucous very quickly help onion juice. Turundas with such a tool should be inserted in the nose for several minutes daily.