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Causal Factors of Nose Diseases
By Administrator | January 30, 2008
Nose is an important organ in the body that should get more attention. It is one of most important protection organs against unfortunate environment.
Nose has some functions, such as smelling sense; preserve inhalation air, so lung can use it; influence certain reflex toward lung; and modify speaking skill.
Even though, nose placed in the center of one third of face, this structure often ignored in human diseases conversation. Physiologic changes of nose affect disturbance track started from uncomforted situation and light disease taking place for a while – like an infection of upper respiration track to higher one such disturbance threaten life atresia choana in newborn baby.
Nose disease symptoms can be locally or as a spreading manifestation from other disease. Local symptoms consist of clogged nose, bleeding, pain or other changes of smelling sense. This disease can express mucous edema as an causal of headache or a factor take a role in chronic ear disease.
Here are some causal factors of nose disease:
- Fracture caused by trauma
Light trauma may cause a significant deformity of nasal septum (soft bone separates nose become two hole, right and left), that cloging nose, then. Other nose pathological, such as allergy, neoplasm infection or metabolic disturbance may harden the clog symptom for a while, recurrent or even permanent. - Perforation of nasal septum (holed nasal septum)
This symptom may be a bersiul sensation passing through the nose while speaking. Small perforation tends to make the sensation than bigger one. Changing lost soft bone of nose is very difficult thing to do (except small hole). Until now therapy has been done is minor surgery method by using various type of tissues, homogene or autogene to cover the hole. - Strange things
Nose disease caused by strange things usually find in children. The things are such button, rubber eraser, marble, peas, bean, or even stone. When it happens no longer, then they will cause no disturbance or just a little, except the thing is big or sharp. Common symptoms are part clogged nose and existence of smell secrete. No strange things may be allowed inside the nose at all, because of necrosis risk (died tissue) and secondary infection that may come and possibility of aspiration into lower respiratory tract.
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