HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR NASAL POLYPS
Nasal
polyps are soft, painless, noncancerous growths on the lining of your nasal
passages or sinuses. They hang down like teardrops or grapes. They result from
chronic inflammation due to asthma, recurring infection, allergies, drug
sensitivity or certain immune disorders.
Small nasal polyps may not cause symptoms. Larger growths
or groups of nasal polyps can block your nasal passages or lead to breathing
problems, a lost sense of smell and frequent infections. Nasal polyps can
affect anyone, but they're more common in adults
Causes--
Scientists don't yet fully understand what causes nasal polyps. It's not clear
why some people develop chronic inflammation or why ongoing inflammation
triggers polyp formation in some people and not in others. The inflammation
occurs in the fluid-producing lining (mucous membrane) of your nose and
sinuses. There's some evidence that people who develop polyps have a different
immune system response and different chemical markers in their mucous membranes
than do those who don't develop polyps.
Nasal polyps can form at any age, but they're most common
in young and middle-aged adults. Nasal polyps may form anywhere in your sinuses
or nasal passages, but they appear most often in an area where sinuses near
your eyes, nose and cheekbones all drain through winding passages into your
nose (ostiomeatal complex).
Symptoms--
Nasal polyps are associated with inflammation of the lining of your nasal
passages and sinuses that lasts more than 12 weeks (chronic rhinosinusitis,
also known as chronic sinusitis). However, it's possible — and even somewhat
more likely — to have chronic sinusitis without nasal polyps.
Nasal polyps themselves are soft and
lack sensation, so if they're small you may not be aware you have them.
Multiple growths or a large polyp may block your nasal passages and sinuses.
Common signs and symptoms of chronic sinusitis
with nasal polyps include:
·
A runny nose
·
Persistent stuffiness
·
Postnasal drip
·
Decreased or absent sense of smell
·
Loss of sense of taste
·
Facial pain or headache
·
Pain in your upper teeth
·
A sense of pressure over your
forehead and face
·
Snoring
Risk factors--
Any condition that triggers chronic inflammation in your nasal passages or
sinuses, such as infections or allergies, may increase your risk of developing
nasal polyps. Conditions often associated with nasal polyps include:
·
Asthma, a disease that causes overall airway inflammation and constriction
·
Allergic fungal sinusitis, an allergy to airborne fungi
·
Cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that results in the production and secretion of
abnormally thick, sticky fluids, including thick mucus from nasal and sinus
membranes
·
Churg-Strauss syndrome, a rare disease that causes the inflammation of blood vessels
Your family history also may play a
role. There's some evidence that certain genetic variations associated with
immune system function make you more likely to develop nasal polyps.
Complications--
Nasal polyps can cause complications because they block normal airflow and
fluid drainage, and also because of the chronic inflammation underlying their
development. Potential complications include:
·
Obstructive sleep apnea. In this potentially serious condition, you stop and start
breathing frequently during sleep.
· Asthma flare-ups. Chronic rhinosinusitis can aggravate asthma.
·
Sinus infections. Nasal polyps can make you more susceptible to sinus infections
that recur often or become chronic.
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES
Even
though it is a surgical diseases Homoeopathic medicines completely cure nasal polyps. Some of the
important remedies are given below.
LEMNA MINOR Q-Lemna
Minor is one of the most effective medicines for nasal polyps. There is obstruction of nose and loss of smell from
nasal polyps. Putrid smell in nose may also be felt in some cases. Thick,
yellow-white discharge from the nose is another leading symptom. In some cases, muco purulent nasal discharge
is observed. Nasal polyps worsen in wet
weather .
TEUCRIUM MARUM
CM-Teucrium Marum is another effective medicine for nasal polyps with marked nasal
blockage. There is obstruction of the
side of the nose on which the person lies down. Loss of smell is also noted.
Crawling sensation in the nose may arise.
SANGUINARIA NITRICUM 3x-Sanguinaria Nitricum is prescribed when there is watery, nasal discharge of burning nature occurs.
There are pressure over root of the nose, plugged sensation in nostrils,
enlarged nasal turbinates, sneezing and yellow, bloody mucus discharge from the
nose.
MERC BIN.
IODIDE 3X—Merc
bin. Iodide is effective for polyps of left side. The patient hawks mucus
from posterior nares. The turbinated
bones swollen.
KALI NITRICUM 3X-Kali
Nitricum is effective for right-sided nasal polyps with coryza , nose obstruction, sneezing, loss of
smell and digging pain in nostrils.
NITRIC ACID 30-Ntric
acid is effective for nasal polyp when fetid and yellowish mucus occurs in
nose. Polyps covered with crusts.
CALCAREA CARB 30-Calcarea
Carb is an effective medicine for left-sided
nasal polyps. It is prescribed for those persons who complain of a blocked nose on the left
side. There is fetid smell and yellow
discharge from nose. In the morning, dryness in nose may be felt. Sneezing,
more in the morning time.Calcarea carb patients are fat , obese and flabby , catch a cold easily, with the slightest
change in weather.Calcarea carb have a craving for indigestible things and
eggs.
ALLIUM CEPA 30-Allium
cepa is prescribed when sneezing occurs in nasal polyp. There is watery
discharge of burning, acrid nature from the nose. The nasal discharge corrodes
the upper lips. Headache may also persist along with fluent coryza. Some feel
there’s a lump at the root of the nose. Nose stoppage may also be observed.
PHOSPHORUS 30-Phosphorus
is a very effective medicine for nasal
polyps that bleed easily. There is coryza with dull headache and sneezing which
worsens with strong odours. Blocked nose early in the morning . It is
prescribed where coryza and dryness of the nose alternate.
KALI BICHROMICUM 30--Kali bichromicum
is effective for post nasal discharge in
nasal polyps . The post nasal discharge is thick, lumpy, ropy in nature,
accompanied with much hawking.There is
marked pressure at the root of nose . Fetid smell from the nose is
another symptom. Violent sneezing in the morning time is another feature
THUJA OCCIDENTALIS 200-Thuja occ
. is prescribed when nasal polyps are present with sinusitis. There is thin,
greenish discharge with loss of smell
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