Everyone is accustomed to pay attention to bad breath. This is a common phenomenon. But in medicine there is such a thing as "an unpleasant odor from the nose". It occurs less frequently and indicates a number of disorders occurring in the body and requiring attention of the patient.
Where does it come from and what is the unpleasant odor in the nose in the nose?
To explain the appearance of fetid odor in the nasal cavity is not difficult. If a large number of pathogens accumulate on the mucous membrane, and the immune system is not able to resist them, the disease develops. Bacteria and viruses multiply very actively, pus is produced. He is exactly the source of the stench.
Most often from the nose can stink:
- rot;
- I burn;
- pus.
The causes of the appearance of an unpleasant odor from the nose
- Ozena. It is a runny nose, accompanied by a fetid odor from the nose. The disease is rare, and why it appears, so far no one knows. Chances are great that an ailment can be transmitted by inheritance. In the lake , crusts form in the nose. They stink.
- Foreign body. Most often they can be found in the noses of children. Adults in the nose of a foreign object to get much more difficult. But sometimes this reason is also relevant.
- Sinusitis. A common cause of the appearance of discharge from the nose with an unpleasant odor. In case of illness, the paranasal sinuses become inflamed. In addition to the fetid cold in the genyantritis , the headache strongly affects the patients, the general state of health worsens.
- Diseases of the endocrine system. They rarely cause a stench. But if the problem is really in them, a sharp smell of acetone appears in the nose.
- Acute rhinitis. Often, treatment of an unpleasant odor from the nose is required for this reason. The disease is diagnosed when all the mucous membrane becomes inflamed. Stink also occurs when pus begins to stand out.