Patient's question:
The child is now also grown up, but still has a lot of nasal discharge. Whenever the child has a cold, the nasal discharge is excessive, and even after taking medicine, it still continues to flow. When the child was younger, it wasn't a problem, but it was expected that it would improve as they grew older. However, now the nasal discharge is still quite frequent. It appears even after wiping, and it reappears.What kind of help is desired: How to deal with the child constantly having nasal discharge?
Doctor's answer:
Because the nasal mucosa of children is richer in blood vessels than that of adults, and they produce more secretions. Moreover, the nervous system's ability to regulate the excretion of the nasal mucosa and ciliary activity is not yet fully developed. Children are also not good at wiping their own noses, so they often have clear nasal discharge, which is a normal physiological phenomenon and does not need to be worried about. However, if the child's nostrils are always hanging with two lines of nasal discharge or dripping with yellow-green pus, it indicates a pathological condition. Long-term discharge of yellow-green pus may indicate sinusitis. Frequent clear nasal discharge may be due to a lack of vitamins A and B. Taking these two vitamins can be effective. Allergies to inhaled dust can cause a large amount of clear nasal discharge in a short time. A very small number of children with foreign bodies in their nasal cavity may also frequently have nasal discharge. The most important thing to pay attention to is that some children with nasal pharyngeal lymphadenopathy also frequently have nasal discharge, but they also have severe snoring, dull facial expressions, and small noses, which can severely interfere with growth and development and body posture. Timely treatment should be given.