Rhinitis Homeopathic Treatment

                                                        Rhinitis

Rhinitis, also known as coryza, is irritation and inflammation of the mucous membrane inside the nose. Common symptoms are a stuffy nose, runny nose, sneezing, and post-nasal drip.

CAUSES

The inflammation is caused by viruses, bacteria, irritants or allergens. The most common kind of rhinitis is allergic rhinitis,[5] which is usually triggered by airborne allergens such as pollen and dander.[6] Allergic rhinitis may cause additional symptoms, such as sneezing and nasal itching, coughing, headache,[7] fatigue, malaise, and cognitive impairment. The allergens may also affect the eyes, causing watery, reddened, or itchy eyes and puffiness around the eyes. The inflammation results in the generation of large amounts of mucus, commonly producing a runny nose, as well as a stuffy nose and post-nasal drip. In the case of allergic rhinitis

Types

Rhinitis is categorized into three types (although infectious rhinitis is typically regarded as a separate clinical entity due to its transient nature): (i) infectious rhinitis includes acute and chronic bacterial infections; (ii) nonallergic (vasomotor) rhinitis includes idiopathic, hormonal, atrophic, occupational, and gustatory rhinitis, as well as rhinitis medicamentosa (drug-induced); (iii) allergic rhinitis, triggered by pollen, mold, animal dander, dust, Balsam of Peru, and other inhaled allergens.

Infectious

Rhinitis is commonly caused by a viral or bacterial infection, including the common cold, which is caused by Rhinoviruses, Coronaviruses, and influenza viruses, others caused by adenoviruses, human parainfluenza viruses, human respiratory syncytial virus, enteroviruses other than rhinoviruses, metapneumovirus, and measles virus, or bacterial sinusitis, which is commonly caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis. Symptoms of the common cold include rhinorrhea, sneezing, sore throat (pharyngitis), cough, congestion, and slight headache[citation needed]

Nonallergic rhinitis

Nonallergic rhinitis refers to rhinitis that is not due to an allergy. The category was formerly referred to as vasomotor rhinitis, as the first cause discovered was vasodilation due to an overactive parasympathetic nerve response. As additional causes were identified, additional types of nonallergic rhinitis were recognized. Vasomotor rhinitis is now included among these under the more general classification of nonallergic rhinitisThe diagnosis is made upon excluding allergic causes. It is an umbrella term of rhinitis of multiple causes, such as occupational (chemical), smoking, gustatory, hormonal, senile (rhinitis of the elderly), atrophic, medication-induced (including rhinitis medicamentosa), local allergic rhinitis, non-allergic rhinitis with eosinophilia syndrome (NARES) and idiopathic (vasomotor or non-allergic, non-infectious perennial allergic rhinitis (NANIPER), or non-infectious non-allergic rhinitis (NINAR).

In vasomotor rhinitis, certain nonspecific stimuli, including changes in environment (temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, or weather), airborne irritants (odors, fumes), dietary factors (spicy food, alcohol), sexual arousal, exercise,[20] and emotional factors trigger rhinitis.There is still much to be learned about this, but it is thought that these non-allergic triggers cause dilation of the blood vessels in the lining of the nose, which results in swelling and drainage.

Non-allergic rhinitis can co-exist with allergic rhinitis, and is referred to as "mixed rhinitis. The pathology of vasomotor rhinitis appears to involve neurogenic inflammation[23] and is as yet not very well understood. The role of transient receptor potential ion channels on the non-neuronal nasal epithelial cells has also been suggested. Overexpression of these receptors have influence the nasal airway hyper-responsiveness to non-allergic irritant environmental stimuli (e.g., extremes of temperature, changes in osmotic or barometric pressure). Vasomotor rhinitis appears to be significantly more common in women than men, leading some researchers to believe that hormones play a role. In general, age of onset occurs after 20 years of age, in contrast to allergic rhinitis which can be developed at any age. Individuals with vasomotor rhinitis typically experience symptoms year-round, though symptoms may be exacerbated in the spring and autumn when rapid weather changes are more common. An estimated 17 million United States citizens have vasomotor rhinitis.[citation needed]

Drinking alcohol may cause rhinitis as well as worsen asthma (see alcohol-induced respiratory reactions). In certain populations, particularly those of East Asian countries such as Japan, these reactions have a nonallergic basis.In other populations, particularly those of European descent, a genetic variant in the gene that metabolizes ethanol to acetaldehyde, ADH1B, is associated with alcohol-induced rhinitis. It is suggested that this variant metabolizes ethanol to acetaldehyde too quickly for further processing by ALDH2 and thereby leads to the accumulation of acetaldehyde and rhinitis symptoms. In these cases, alcohol-induced rhinitis may be of the mixed rhinitis type and, it seems likely, most cases of alcohol-induced rhinitis in non-Asian populations reflect true allergic response to the non-ethanol and/or contaminants in alcoholic beverages, particularly when these beverages are wines or beers. Alcohol-exacerbated rhinitis is more frequent in individuals with a history of rhinitis exacerbated by aspirin.

Allergic

Allergic rhinitis or hay fever may follow when an allergen such as pollen, dust, or Balsam of Peru is inhaled by an individual with a sensitized immune system, triggering antibody production. These antibodies mostly bind to mast cells, which contain histamine. When the mast cells are stimulated by an allergen, histamine (and other chemicals) are released. This causes itching, swelling, and mucus production.

HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT

Allium Cepa

     Begins sneezing, with increasing frequency. Watery discharge drips from nose; excoriates lip and wings of nose. (Ars., Arum trip.) Rawness in nose; copious lachrymation. Fluid from nose excoriating: from eyes bland. (Reverse of Euphrasia). Generally begins left side and goes to right. Every year in August (Naja) morning coryza with violent sneezing: very sensitive to odor of flowers and skin of peaches. Spring coryza: Hayfever in August every year on rising from bed, and handling peaches.

   

Arsenicum

     Discharge burns a red streak over upper lip and about wings of nose, with sneezing and profuse, watery nasal discharge The typical Ars. patient is anxious, restless, often asthmatic, when his worst hour is soon alter midnight. Sneezing a prominent symptom, but sneezing no joke. Starts from tickling in one spot nose; after sneezing tickling as bad as before. Hay asthma.

   

Arsenicum Iodatum

     Hay fever with fetid, corrosive discharge. Discharges excoriating, thick and yellow, resembling honey. (Graph.)

   

Arum Triphyllum

     A prickling sensation that cannot be left alone. Pinches and pricks, and bores into the nostrils, however sore. A dreadful catarrh. Nose stopped, worse left side. Sneezing worse during the night. Fluent acrid coryza, with lachrymation usually bland. (Comp. Allium Cepa.) Fluid from nose, produces rawness, smarting, burning: leaves red streaks as it flows over skin'. (Ars.) - KENT.

   

Arundo Mauritanica

     KENT gives this drug in black type in the Repertory for Hay Fever. Hay fever begins with burning and itching of palate and conjunctiva. Coryza with snuffling. First water runs from the nose, later green mucus. With sneezing, pieces of indurated greenish mucus. Itching, burning, dryness of Schneiderian membrane. Curious symptoms, when sneezing, stitches in loins.

   

Bromium

     Fluent coryza with frequent violent sneezing. Corrosive soreness under and margins of nose. Right nostril more affected. Aversion to smoking: to drinking cold water.

   

Carbo Vegetabilis

     Frequent sneezing, with constant violent crawling and tickling in nose; lachrymation and biting pain in and above nose. Ineffectual desire to sneeze, with crawling in left nostril. Watery discharge, and sneezes day and night. Suffers from heat: is chilled by cold: sweats in a hot room. No comfortable place.

   

Dulcamara

     Nostrils stopped up, cannot breathe through nose. (Lach) Constant sneezing, profuse watery discharge from nose and eyes. Worse open air: better in closed room: worse near newly cut grass: better at Seaside. (Nat.mur.) Eyes swelled and full and most affected, then nose, then again eyes. Dulc. cannot stand cold and wet: worse from chill when hot.

   

Euphrasia

     Profuse acrid lachrymation, with profuse bland coryza (reverse of Allium Cepa). Short-acting remedy: very useful in catarrhal affections without fever. Sneezing; fluent bland coryza with acrid tears Eyes worse open air, and wind.

   

Gelsemium

     Sneezing: hot face: feeling of great weight and tiredness in whole body and limbs. Violent morning paroxysms of sneezing: tingling in nose. Watery, excoriating discharge. Curious symptom, a feeling from throat up to left nostril, like a stream of scalding water.

   

Kali Iodatum

     Violent sneezing, acrid, watery discharge. Worse cool air, worse open air: but patient feels better in open air: i.e.: finds no quarters for relief. Frontal sinuses involved with the coryza; much pain in forehead, eyes, cheekbones.

   

Kali Phosphoricum

     Hay fever, said to be prophylactic. Itching in posterior nares. Sneezing ; at 2 a.m. Eyes burn, sting, swim in tears. Tongue coated like stale brownish liquid mustard.

   

Lachesis

     Paroxysms of sneezing worse after sleep even in the day time. Headache extending into nose, with frequent and violent paroxysms of sneezing. Mucous membrane or nose thickened: dry stuffed sensation through head: face red, puffed: eyes seem almost pressed out. Red, sore nostrils and lips. Lach. is purple: sleeps into aggravation; throat sensitive to touch or pressure.

   

Naja

     Much sneezing: water runs from nose: cannot lie down at night; dryness of air passages of nose. Hay fever. Suffocative attacks in August. (All. Cepa.). Like Lach. wakes suffocating gasping, choking. Rawness of trachea and larynx, as if excoriated.

   

Natrum Muriaticum

     Squirming as from a small worm. Watery discharge from eyes and nose. Severe coryza, had to lay a towel under nose. Woke with headache; after rising nasal discharge with violent and frequent sneezing. Loss of taste and smell: cough from tickling in throat pit. Lachrymation acrid; canthi red and sore. Characteristics: Worse in sun; desire for salt in hay fever, better at seaside. Recorded case, cured by a swim in the sea.

   

Nux Vomica

     Distressing prolonged paroxysms of sneezing. Excessive irritation in nose, eyes. face; - Heat as if a hot iron plate were near it. Itching extends to larynx and trachea. Nux is very irritable: very sensitive to cold.

   

Psorinum

     A sort of continuous hay fever, runs all the year and ripens up in the Fall. Catarrhal state of eyes and nose. Nose dries up part of the time and runs part of the time: must continually use handkerchief. "Hay fever a difficult condition to fit a remedy to; constitution must be built up before hay fever will cease" - KENT. Must wrap up in hottest summer. Wants head covered. Skin greasy, oily, looks unwashed.

   

Ranunculus

     Eyes smart; lips burn and are sore. Nose stuffed, especially evenings, with pressure root of nose and tingling and crawling inside. May attack posterior nares: hawks and swallow in effort to scratch affected part. (Comp. Wyeth.) Hoarseness: stitching pains chest: muscles sore.

   

Sabadilla

     Spasmodic sneezing: fluent coryza. Nostrils stuffed up: inspirations through nose laboured: snoring. Itching in nose; bleeding from nose. (Zinc.)Violent sneezing; with copious watery discharge. Severe frontal pains and redness eyelids. Very sensitive to smell of garlic.

   

Sanguinaria

     Rose colds in June. Sensitive to flowers and odors. Hay fever with burning in nose, throat - dry: as if mucous membranes would crack open. Dry burning in larynx with hoarseness of chest with asthma. Palms dry, burning, wrinkled. Burning palms and soles: puts them out of bed. (Sulph., Puls., Cham., Med.)

   

Silica

     begins with itching and tingling in nose. Violent sneezing and excoriating discharge. Itching in posterior nares, or orifice of Eustachian tubes. (Ars., Sil., Wyeth.)

   

Sinapis Nigra

     Mucous membrane of nose dry and hot: worse afternoon and evening: one nostril affected, or alternate nostrils. Nose swollen, stuffed: discharges a thin acrid mucus. (Ailanthus.) Eyes suffused, itch, smart .

   

Sticta Pulmonaria

     Constant need to blow nose, but no discharge results on account of dryness. Nose is stuffed up; secretion drying so rapidly it cannot be discharged. Almost constant sneezing; tingling right side nose. Fullness right side forehead to root nose. Excessive dryness of soft palate. Tickling high up in pharynx.

   

Wyethia

     Peculiar itching in roof of mouth (Arund.), for relief patient must draw tongue back and forth over soft palate; with this coryza, sneezing, etc.

   

Zincum