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 Nasal Polyp Removal Treatment, Nasal Polyp, Best Nasal Polyp Removal Surgery Hospital IndiaNasal polyps are teardrop-shaped, noncancerous growths on the lining of your nasal passages or sinuses.

Small nasal polyps may cause no problems and go unnoticed. Larger nasal polyps can block your nasal passages or sinuses and cause breathing difficulties, a loss of your sense of smell, frequent sinus infections and other problems.
Although nasal polyps can affect anyone, they're more common in adults, particularly those with asthma, frequent sinus infections and allergies. Children with cystic fibrosis often develop nasal polyps.

Medications can often lessen the size of nasal polyps or eliminate them, but surgery is sometimes necessary to remove them. Even after successful treatments, nasal polyps often return.


Symptoms


Nasal polyps are associated with chronic inflammation of the lining of your nasal passages and sinuses (chronic sinusitis). If you have several polyps or large polyps, they may obstruct your nasal passages and sinuses. As a result of these conditions in your nose and sinuses,

You may experience some of the following signs and symptoms:

  • A runny nose
  • Persistent stuffiness
  • Postnasal drip
  • Decreased or no sense of smell
  • Loss of sense of taste
  • Facial pain or headache
  • Snoring
  • Itching around your eyes

You may have small nasal polyps and experience no signs or symptoms.


Risk factors


Any condition that contributes to chronic inflammation in your nasal passages or sinuses (chronic sinusitis), such as infections or allergies, may increase your risk of nasal polyps.

Conditions often associated with nasal polyps include:

  • Asthma, a disease that causes inflammation and constriction of airways
  • Aspirin sensitivity , an allergy-like response to aspirin or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs — such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others) and naproxen (Aleve)
  • Allergic fungal sinusitis, an allergy to airborne fungi
  • Cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that results in the production and secretion of abnormal fluids, including thick mucus from nasal and sinus membranes
  • Churg-Strauss syndrome, a rare disease that causes the inflammation of blood vessels


Other risk factors include:

  • Age. Nasal polyps are more common in adults.
  • Family history. There is some evidence that you may inherit a gene or genes that make you more likely to develop nasal


The operation


You will have a general anaesthetic and be completely asleep. The operation will be carried out inside the nose. There will be no cuts on the outside of the nose. There will be no change in the shape of your nose.

Small instruments will be used inside the nose to take out each polyp which is then sent to the laboratory to be examined under a microscope.
The surgeon will wash out your sinuses to remove any infection that may be trapped inside by the polyps. If there is any bleeding, the surgeon will put cotton gauze (a pack) soaked in Vaseline inside your nose to stop the bleeding, or he may use a dressing like sponge rubber.

Sometimes if the nose is very narrow inside, the surgeon may leave plastic splints inside the nose to stop the tissues sticking together when they heal up. Because you are asleep you will not feel any pain at all during the operation.

You will probably be fit to go home the day after your operation.


Possible complications


As with any operation under general anaesthetic, there is a very small risk of complications related to your heart and the lungs.
The tests that you will have before the operation will make sure that you can have the operation in the safest possible way and will bring the risk for such complications very close to zero.
If there is a lot of bleeding during your operation, the surgeon may leave the packs inside your nose for an extra day. If there is a lot of bleeding after the packs are removed, then the surgeon will put them back in, either with a local or a general anaesthetic.

Sometimes in people with narrow nasal passages, the sides of the nose may stick together as they heal with bands of scarred tissue which are called adhesions. The adhesions can often be freed by the surgeon when he sees you in the outpatient clinic.
In some people, polyps can come back again. This may happen within a year, or may occur several years later. It is impossible to say whether your polyps will come back again, only time will tell.








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