Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Old man winter and anti rhinitis

Cold winter, people constantly in and cold air. While in contact with the cold, the nose is the "first", because cold air must first enter the nose, and then enter the airway.

Nasal airway "transmission" of the portal, it is rich in blood vessels and nerve receptors. The nasal mucosa are highly sensitive to temperature changes, and normal when the temperature dropped to below 20 ° c, nasal congestion and the resulting amount of easily secretions; and when the temperature drops to-10 ° c below the nasal mucosa of this cold stimulus response will increase. The elderly due to thinning nasal amyotrophy, outside air temperature adaptability than in, less young people. Therefore, the elderly in winter, the nose of this part of the more afraid of the cold, more vulnerable to infection and rhinitis.

Simple card his rhinitis caused by cold, or viral infection caused by inclusions; when inclusions have bacterial infections, the secretions are pyometra, symptoms are more serious. Suffering from rhinitis symptoms as nasal congestion, sneezing, tears (Ching tears, mucus or mucopurulent), headache, smell impairment soreness, slightly, or have mild increase in body temperature, blood tests are sometimes elevated or neutral white blood cells, white cells. Rhinitis and the difference between a cold is rhinitis is dominated by local lesions, no systemic symptoms in General, and cold symptoms is both topical and systemic symptoms. Suffering from the flu, the systemic symptoms of more serious, and general symptoms of nasal local.

Elderly prevention rhinitis, cold-proof from a note to keep warm. Winter-proof clothes to wear foot, going as far as possible, wearing masks, cold wind is blowing over the back home a hot face, cover with a hot towel over your nose, hot feet before bed available. After suffering from rhinitis should point in time, such as nasal drops of nitrofurazone ephedrine, drugs such as streptomycin sulfate, a certain effect.

(Editors: Dawn 1m1m)

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