Chronic hypertrophic rhinitis - what is it? What causes its development? In what forms can the disease occur? What methods of treatment exist?.

Hypertrophic rhinitis is characterized by thickening of the mucous tissues of the nose. Chronic hypertrophic rhinitis (rhinitis) is an inflammatory process in the nasal cavity, which leads to thickening of the mucous membranes and an increase in the number of glands in them, as well as the growth of bone nasal concha.

Forms of the diseaseThere are two forms of hypertrophic rhinitis:.

Limit: the mucosa of the anterior, middle or posterior side of the nasal shell is affected;.

Diffuse: all parts of the nasal mucosa are affected.

Depending on the type of altered tissue, the disease can take the following forms:.

Vascular: most often observed with a medicinal runny nose, when vascular tone is not independently regulated. Nasal congestion is aggravated if the patient lies on his side, when turning to the other side, the breath is broken from the corresponding side;.

Fibrous:

develops with prolonged inflammatory process, when damaged tissues become denser, and there is thickening of the mucous membrane in the posterior part of the inferior nasal concha;.

| Bone: is characterized by a thickening of the osseous cartilaginous tissue of the shells of the nose;.

Papillary: characterized by the appearance of pathological growths that cause permanent nasal congestion and cause a large amount of mucous secretion;.

Polycystic: observed with the growth of connective tissue in the anterior part of the central nasal concha.

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