symptom
The symptoms of allergic rhinitis are similar to those of a cold, mainly including itchy nose, stuffy nose, sneezing and runny nose (runny nose), and intermittent recurrent attacks. The nasal mucosa was pale and edematous during the attack. If you have allergies, it will cause urticaria. In severe cases, allergic cough or asthma may occur.
Itching nose: it is the main first symptom of this disease. Besides itchy nose, there are also itchy symptoms in throat, eyes, ears and trachea.
Sneezing: It is a symptom after itchy nose. You can hit several or dozens at a time.
Runny nose: mostly watery, sometimes sticky.
Nasal congestion: due to edema of nasal mucosa and turbinate, secretions are blocked, and nasal congestion disappears after the attack. If the attack is repeated or the attack time is too long, the edema mucosa may further form nasal polyps, which will aggravate the nasal congestion and persist at the foot of the mountain.
Other symptoms: decreased sense of smell, nosebleeds, headache, watery eyes, itchy eyes, etc.
The symptoms of nasal allergy are very similar to common cold infection or flu. Contact with other cold or flu patients may increase the possibility of the same symptoms. Usually, cold symptoms usually subside within a week if left untreated, while allergic symptoms may last for 10 days or longer, sometimes even for months.
So how do you tell if you are a cold or allergic rhinitis? In particular, many parents came to the clinic and told the doctor anxiously: "Doctor, my child has caught a cold 1 year. What should I do? " Tamia Liu, the attending physician of the Otolaryngology Department of Xiamen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, told you that we can identify it from the following aspects:
Symptoms: allergic rhinitis is mostly confined to nasal symptoms, with a long course of disease; In addition to nasal symptoms, colds also have symptoms such as sore throat, fever, cough, general fatigue or muscle aches. There is watery runny nose in the early stage of a cold, and then it turns into purulent runny nose.
Physical examination: Doctors can find congestion of nasal mucosa and throat when they catch a cold, while allergic rhinitis is characterized by typical mucosal pallor and edema.
Detection: allergic rhinitis often has positive skin prick test or elevated blood IgE.
treat cordially
There is no complete cure for allergic rhinitis, but symptoms can be relieved by drugs or other methods. Generally, antihistamines, such as chlorphenamine maleate, are prescribed at the onset of the patient to stop the allergic reaction. Because early antihistamines are easy to make users feel tired, some pharmaceutical companies have developed antihistamines that are not easy to cause fatigue, such as cetirizine hydrochloride and loratadine, to reduce the activities that affect patients during the day. Other drugs such as cell stabilizers and corticosteroids can also reduce the number of attacks or allergic reactions, and decongestants can reduce the symptoms of nasal congestion.
Surgical treatment: it can be used as a supplementary treatment for drug treatment. At present, there is no special surgical method.
preventive
In order to reduce the occurrence of nasal hypersensitivity and relieve the symptoms of the disease, patients must change their daily habits to avoid the deterioration of their condition. The following are some precautions in daily life, which can effectively prevent or alleviate the symptoms of nasal sensitivity.
1. Keep the home environment clean, dry and ventilated.
2. Avoid using carpets or thick curtain cloth to reduce the chance of breeding dust lice at home.
3. Avoid planting flowering plants and reduce nasal sensitivity caused by pollen.
4. Avoid contact with animal hair and dander.
5. Wash pillows and sheets regularly to avoid dust mites breeding indoors.
6. Avoid wearing woolen clothes and touching plush dolls.
7, chemicals such as cosmetics, paint, camphor, pesticides and other smells, will stimulate the nasal mucosa to make the disease worse, should be completely eliminated.
8. Try to avoid staying in crowded places: turbid air and weather factors, such as extreme cold, heat, dryness or humidity, may cause allergic attacks.
9. Unless you are sensitive to a certain food, you don't need to quit, just pay attention to a balanced diet and take in enough nutrition.
10 Avoid touching cold food, replenish plenty of water every day, and drink less drinks containing dairy products. [2]
1 1, mental stress, nervousness and fatigue can easily induce nasal sensitivity, so it is very important to have enough rest every day.
12, nasal congestion will cause congestion in the lower eye socket near the nose. When taking a bath, breathe steam for three minutes to relieve nasal congestion.
13. If you go to a crowded place, you should wear a mask.
Acupoint massage therapy for allergic rhinitis
Massage your nose: Massage your nose repeatedly from top to bottom for 5 minutes, then press Xiang Ying (in the nasolabial groove, at the midpoint of the outer edge of the flat nose wing) and Shangyingxiang (at the upper and lower ends of the nasolabial groove) for 65,438+0 minutes respectively. Press Xiang Ying point with your fingers 36 ~ 100 times a day.
Acupoint pressing: thumb alternately pushes Tang Yin (brow) 50 times, thenar of hand pushes 1 min from forehead to temples on both sides (the midpoint of the connecting line between the outer corner of the eye and the brow tip), and the middle part of Taiyin lung meridian (6 inches beside the chest midline, leveling the first intercostal space) rubs against the ruler (on the elbow level, on the radial side of the biceps tendon).
Lift the shoulder and neck: grasp and pinch the meridian points on the middle of the back of the neck and on both sides of the dorsal midline with the palm of your hand, and repeat from top to bottom for 4-6 times. Then lift it from the neck to the shoulders on both sides. Re-occupy Tiaojing point (hands overlap shoulders, under the fingertips of middle finger) and do it for 3 minutes. Press and knead Shu Fei (lower side of spinous process of the third thoracic vertebra 1.5 inch) 1 min.
Back rubbing: press the palm back and forth to feel the skin fully heated. The above massage techniques are done 1 time every day, and1time is a course of treatment.