The main causes of this injury are fights, sports and domestic injuries due to the impact of a hard surface.
Signs of a fracture
Fracture of the nose can be open and closed. When open, the skin is damaged, and bone fragments can be seen in the wound. The main symptoms of a closed fracture are painful sensations when you feel your nose, bleeding, bruises and swelling around the nose and in the area under the eyes. With a shifted fracture, there is a visible deformation of the shape of the nose, breathing may be difficult.
In everyday life, a fracture is often referred to as a nasal cartilage trauma, which is also accompanied by swelling, deformity of the nose, difficulty breathing, painful sensations and bleeding. The most frequent injuries of this type are trauma to the nasal septum.
Treatment
First aid for a fractured nose is to apply ice wrapped in a towel to avoid swelling and reduce bleeding. You can also take an anesthetic. Then you should consult a specialist. The earlier the patient turned to the doctor, the easier it will be to give him an accurate diagnosis and take the necessary measures. Fractures of the nose, if not open, may not require urgent medical intervention and allow an interval of up to 5-7 days, but do not delay the visit to the doctor. In the first week after the fracture, it is possible to straighten the nose and install broken bones manually, without surgical intervention, so timely access to a specialist is so important.
Trying to put the bone in place itself is by no means impossible, as this can lead to additional injuries.
If there is a simple, not shifted fracture, the treatment will be limited to prescribing anesthetics and nasal drugs to facilitate breathing. In case of severe bleeding, cotton swabs with hydrogen peroxide are placed in the nose.
With severe dizziness, headache, multiple vomiting and liquid light discharge from the nose, the doctor should immediately go to the doctor. The isolation of clear liquid from the nose can mean damage to the nasolacrimal canal or the septal septum and, as a consequence, the leakage of cerebrospinal fluid. It is not the specialist who will not be able to tell which kind of injury is taking place, so an emergency visit to the doctor is especially important in this case, since the injury is very serious and dangerous.
Consequences of a fracture of the nose
To aesthetic defects that can occur after a fracture, includes a violation of the symmetry of the face, curvature of the nose, the appearance of a hump. All this can be corrected by the methods of plastic surgery.
When untimely treatment occurs deformation of the septum of the nose. If the septum was not "put in place" in the first 10 days after the injury, then it fuses in the wrong position. With the deformation of the septum, there is difficulty or complete absence of nasal breathing and,
Curvature of the nasal septum, if not aligned immediately, is treated surgically, but surgery is possible only 2-3 months after the injury.
Restoration of the bones of the nose and nasal septum lasts up to three hours and is performed under general anesthesia. In the event that the restoration of the bone structure is not required, but only the alignment of the septum, the operation is performed by the methods of endoscopic surgery.