At My Houston Surgeons, you’ll be able to work with surgeons who specialize in and have extensive experience on complicated sinus, nasal, and skull base issues. Polyps (growths in the nose) may develop with chronic sinusitis. On top of making it difficult to breathe and swallow, post nasal drip can also give you a sore throat, cause you to cough and clear your throat excessively, and become very hoarse. It requires the skill and training of a sinus and nasal specialist. Surgical treatment for chronic nasal drip is incredibly sophisticated. If you have a cold, or allergies, and your nose is putting out more mucus, you are going to have the sensation of drainage or drip. In the case that the nerves that innervate the nasal tissue and nasal blood vessels are causing the chronic nasal drip, we ligate or section the nerve, meaning the nerve is either tied off or cut. So he recommended finding an alkaline water with a ph of 9+ to keep in hand for sipping on days when the mucus is bad. He explained something about a high ph water helps clear out mucus, which is why gargling salt water helps (but he said drinking it would be better but it tastes nasty). If this is ineffective, we may suggest surgical intervention. And after the mucus (post nasal drip) was nearly gone.

When Vasomotor Rhinitis is involved, we treat the condition using an anticholinergic nasal spray. For people whose thickened mucus are a result of a lack of hydration, drinking more water can help. In the case of a bacterial infection, chronic nasal drip can be treated by antibiotics. If the post-nasal drip is caused by allergies, treatments can include a combination of a nasal steroid, antihistamine sprays, decongestants, and allergy shots. Citardi, MD, who used a breakthrough cooling technology to treat the. You may also experience a buildup of mucus at the back of your throat. After trying allergy shots and a variety of medications without success, he was referred by his allergist to Martin J. Postnasal drip describes mucus dripping from your nose down your throat. I tried treating for reflux maybe two months ago, took proton pump inhibitors for two weeks, had my bed at an incline and stopped eating 3h before bed but it didnt help. Oftentimes, the best treatment for post-nasal drip is treating the condition that caused it in the first place. As he grew older, 42-year-old Jon Balter developed severe chronic rhinitis and sought help from allergists and ENTs for nearly a decade. Basically the problems came with the post nasal drip 4 months ago which I still have, thick mucus in the back of the throat.

Chronic post nasal drip