White Snot

Discharge from the nose are of different colors: green, yellowish, white, red and colorless. In addition, nasal mucus has a different consistency. White snot is always thick and sticky. Why there are white snot, on what malfunctions in an organism such color of a nasal secret can specify? The specialists answer the questions in the article.

At what illnesses there are allocation from a nose of white color?

The norm in medicine is the allocation of a small amount of clear mucus from the nose. The appearance of a white snot usually signals the onset of a catarrhal disease accompanied by inflammation. The change in the color of the natural human fluid is due to the presence of pus in the nasal secretion secreted by the nasal cavity.

The condition, when the stuffy nose is embedded, and the snot are white, is observed in diseases:

These diseases caused by bacterial infection are characterized by tissue damage: with adenoiditis - adenoids, sinusitis - frontal sinuses, with etmoiditis - the mucous membranes of the latticed bone. To accurately establish the diagnosis of the patient is recommended to undergo roentgenography.

Sometimes white discharge from the nose can be with allergies. From year to year, repeated manifestations during the flowering of a particular plant are the main sign of a hay fever.

Much less often, white snots are a sign of the polyp in the nasal cavity.

How to treat white snot?

To proceed to treatment with the appearance of white discharge from the nose can only be after an accurate diagnosis, because the approaches to treating colds and allergies are different. With the accumulation of snot due to infection are carried out:

Physioprocedures can be prescribed, and with strong blurring of the maxillary sinuses, procedures are aimed at ensuring the release of mucus.

Polyps are cured with the help of lavages with special compounds or surgically removed.

With allergies, antihistamines are used:

And to facilitate breathing, vasoconstrictive drops for the nose are used: