When smoking, smoke passes through the throat into the lung, again by the lung, nasal and oral breathing, smoke through the Department of the mucosa are coal tar pollution, this kind of thing to stimulate the nasal mucosa, can cause mucosal inflammation, secretions after discharge, such as suffering from allergic rhinitis, can make the aggravate the symptoms, frequent attacks. Nicotine in smoke, and smoke in the combustion process of produced carbon monoxide, can cause vascular spasm, nasal mucosa vasoconstriction, resulting in mucosal ischemia and nasal dryness, such as suffering from rhinitis sicca or atrophic rhinitis, will aggravate the condition. If the long-term smoking, nasal mucosa vascular by contraction to expansion, the nasal congestion and swelling, often clinically visible in the nasal mucosa of smokers in the congestion state; such as suffering from rhinitis, will naturally make nasal obstruction aggravating. In addition, long-term smoking will damage the nasal mucosal surface of ciliated cells, resulting in the nasal mucosa of the disease to reduce. Therefore, smoking is harmful to the nasal mucosa, rhinitis patients should quit smoking.
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