Acute Nasal Obstruction Research Articles

Factors influencing olfactory function in an adult general population sample: the CHRIS study.

The sense of smell allows for the assessment of the chemical composition of volatiles in our environment. Different factors are associated with reduced olfactory function, including age, sex, as well as health and lifestyle conditions. However, most studies that aimed at identifying the variables that drive olfactory function in the population suffered from methodological weaknesses in study designs and participant selection, such as the inclusion of convenience sample or only of certain age groups, or recruitment biases. We aimed to overcome these issues by investigating the Cooperative Health Research in South Tyrol (CHRIS) cohort, a population-based cohort, by using a validated odor identification test. Specifically, we hypothesized that a series of medical, demographic and lifestyle variables is associated with odor identification abilities. In addition, our goal was to provide clinicians and researchers with normative values for the Sniffin' Sticks identification set, after exclusion of individuals with impaired nasal patency. We included 6,944 participants without acute nasal obstruction and assessed several biological, social, and medical parameters. A basic model determined that age, sex, years of education, and smoking status together explained roughly 13% of the total variance in the data. We further observed that variables related to medical (positive screening for cognitive impairment and for Parkinson's disease, history of skull fracture, stage 2 hypertension) and lifestyle (alcohol abstinence) conditions had a negative effect on odor identification scores. Finally, we provide clinicians with normative values for both versions of the Sniffin' Sticks odor identification test, i.e. with 16 items and with 12 items.

Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Presenting as Acute Nasal Obstruction

Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Presenting as Acute Nasal Obstruction

Hızlı Gelişen Burun Tıkanıklığının Nadir Bir Nedeni Olarak Dev Konka Bülloza Piyoseli

Hızlı Gelişen Burun Tıkanıklığının Nadir Bir Nedeni Olarak Dev Konka Bülloza Piyoseli

Nasal patency is related to dust exposure in woodworkers

Objectives: A cross sectional study of 54 furniture factories and three control factories was conducted to investigate the relation between subjective and objective nasal obstruction and exposure to wood dust....

Relationship Between Mastication and Respiration During Acute Nasal Obstruction in Infants.

Relationship Between Mastication and Respiration During Acute Nasal Obstruction in Infants.

Relationship between Acute Nasal Obstruction and Mastication -Effect of Acute Nasal Obstruction on Mastication and Respiration-

Relationship between Acute Nasal Obstruction and Mastication -Effect of Acute Nasal Obstruction on Mastication and Respiration-

Effect of Acute Nasal Obstruction on The Masticatory Function - With Regard to Masticatory Efficiency-

Effect of Acute Nasal Obstruction on The Masticatory Function - With Regard to Masticatory Efficiency-

The nose and obstructive sleep apnea.

The role of the nasal passage in the pathophysiology of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is still controversial. To this end, induction of acute nasal obstruction in healthy volunteers is associated with sleep fragmentation and an increase in the number of obstructive and central apneas. Moreover, nasal topical anesthesia, which alters nasal reflexes, is associated with an increase in the number of obstructive and central apneas during sleep. Although nasal resistance is increased in patients with OSA, chronic nasal obstruction appears to play no significant role in the genesis, maintenance, or severity of OSA. Moreover, surgical correction of nasal obstruction does not alleviate OSA appreciably. The purpose of this review is to outline the current body of knowledge on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of nasal obstruction in patients with OSA.

Iatrogenic acute nasal obstruction in an obligate nose breather: L. S. Ulin and G. L. Bartlett, Jr. JAMA 234(16):1657, (April), 1980

Iatrogenic acute nasal obstruction in an obligate nose breather: L. S. Ulin and G. L. Bartlett, Jr. JAMA 234(16):1657, (April), 1980

Latrogenic Acute Nasal Obstruction in an Obligate Nose Breather

NASAL congestion is a common problem of infants. There are many causes of this condition: congenital abnormalities, trauma, infections, environmental irritants or allergens, foreign bodies, and intranasal drug use. Although nasal congestion is not usually considered an urgent or emergency situation, it may become catastrophic in an obligate nose breather. Recently an infant came to our emergency department with acute nasal obstruction from the use of hypertonic saline nose drops. Report of a Case A 34-day-old girl was brought to the emergency department with nasal congestion and severe respiratory distress. The mother had taken the baby to another hospital for a runny nose and nasal congestion two days previously. The physician at the clinic had instructed her to use a vaporizer and salt solution nose drops every four hours. During the next 36 hours, the infant's condition improved; however, she then became congested again, with the development of intermittent, gasping

Iatrogenic acute nasal obstruction in an obligate nose breather

Iatrogenic acute nasal obstruction in an obligate nose breather

ALLERGIC RHINITIS IN EARLY INFANCY

An infant with severe, life-threatening respiratory distress due to allergic rhinitis is described. Since this has not been previously reported, a plea is made for the consideration of allergy as a cause of acute nasal obstruction in the newborn after other more common causes, and certain unusual ones reviewed above, have been ruled out.

THE INTLUENCE OF NASAL OBSTRUCTION ON THE EFFICIENCY OF WORK By T. OKUDA

The author studied the influence of nasal obstruction on the efficiency of work. Conclusions were as follows: 1. In those with nasal obstruction, there were obvious subjective symptoms and these were aggravated by the labor. 2. Subjective feeling of fatigue was influenced by the nasal obstruction. 3. In postoperative cases, those without improvement of nasal obstruction had more fatigue feeling than those with improved nasal obstruction. 4. Those with nasal obstruction showed higher value in flicker fatigue test even before the start of the work and the value remarkably became higher compared with those in normal in- dividuals. Effect of mental work was not great as that of muscular work. 5. These evidences were re:ognized also in experimental acute nasal obstruction. 6. Decreased repiratory function was observed in 30% of the case with chronic nasal ob- struction. 7. Decreased respiratory function was seen among those with postoperative residual nasal obstruction in similar frequency among the non-surgical patients with nasal obstruction. In those without nasal obstruction, the respiratory function was within normal limits. 8. Blood chemistry of those with nasal obstruction showed generally, low oxygenation, low oxygen saturation, and also slight decrease of total carbon dioxide and alkali reserve. 9. From above mentioned evidences, it seems like easy fatiguability in those with nasal obstruction is mainly due to anoxic anoxia caused by decreased respiratory function.