Why lay the nose

Agree, a stuffy nose is able to deliver quite unpleasant moments, if not turn a person's life in hell. If nasal congestion human brain is deprived of a full supply of oxygen, which leads to problems with sleep, malfunction, etc. What can be caused by nasal congestion, and what treatment should be conducted in a given situation, says Rassion.ru.
To ensure proper treatment, you need to decide what exactly was the cause of your illness.
A. With a cold
If you managed to solve the problem using vasoconstrictive nasal drops, most likely, has a runny nose, or the nature of colds can be caused by hypothermia happened.
What to do: If you are sure you are dealing with a catarrhal cold, then warming to help invoke the procedure - take a hot bath for the feet and hands, to the area of ​​the calf muscles put mustard, drink tea with honey, lime-blossom and raspberry jam.
In order to relieve congestion (edema), enter more deeply into the nostrils with cotton flagella 2 with 3 drops of decongestants and leave for 3-5 minutes. After that, thoroughly clean the contents of your nose, rinse with saline solution nose, and only then bury vasoconstrictor drops (but do not want to use them more than 2 or 3 consecutive days).
If you beat a cold a few days you can not, do not delay your visit to the doctor. Statistics show 20% of cases are not treated in time are complicated by sinusitis sinusitis.
Two. In the "fullness" in the nose
If the use of vasoconstrictive drops does not bring relief, you feel the "expansion inside" in the nose, dull pain over the upper jaw or the side of the wings of the nose, probably talking about sinusitis - inflammation of the paranasal sinuses.
What to do: seek emergency assistance from the ENT doctor. Saline lavage may be appropriate in this case, a swelling of the shoot with a swab soaked in vasoconstrictor drops.
Three. Do you constantly stuffy nose
Stuffy nose for you - a permanent feature, you almost never breathed freely nose? Most likely, this is the result of the injury, or a deviated septum.
What to do: in a similar situation should consult a specialist may have to fix this problem by surgical intervention.
4. Polyps in the nose
Do you experience shortness of breath due to the presence of chronic sinusitis or allergic rhinitis, there are problems with sleep, diminished sense of smell? In this case, the cause may well serve as polyps.
What to do: in this situation, surgical treatment.
Five. You suffer from seasonal rhinitis

If nasal congestion is accompanied by a watery, sneezing, itching in the nose give way to dense liquid separation, and you are confronted with this at certain times of the year (often cold rainy autumn) or in wet weather, the most likely case of chronic rhinitis or seasonal rhinitis .
What to do: to engage in treatment should only be an expert - no self!
6. Do you have an allergy
If nasal congestion and runny nose occur during the active flowering plants in the presence of chemical impurities, dust, etc. - It is allergic reaction.
What to do: it will require an appeal to the allergist. But the use of vasoconstrictor nose drops in this case is meaningless.
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We hope our tips will help you to establish the true causes of nasal congestion. And if you do not believe that a cold is caused by the common cold, do not spend any medical experiments on their own health, and seek professional help!