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There are also a few illnesses that are known to increase the risk of nasal polyps
formation:
• Asthma
• Chronic rhinosinusitis
• Aspirin intolerance
• Kartagener’s syndrome
• Young’s syndrome
• Churg-Strauss syndrome
• Nasal Mastocytosis
• Cystic fibrosis
MEDICAL & SURGICAL TREATMENTS FOR NASAL POLYPS:
If you ask a doctor about treatments for nasal polyps, most often you will be told that
surgery is the recommended option. However, although surgery indeed removes the
polyps completely, 70% of cases have a recurrence, meaning that within a few
weeks you'll be back to where you started. Furthermore, there is a high risk of
damaging orbit matter during nasal surgery as it requires great precision.
Your doctor may also prescribe drugs and steroids, but these have a number of side
effects and limitations, as will be described in later chapters. A frequently prescribed
pharmaceutical spray is mometasone furate, which is often used for allergies.
If the polyps are bleeding, it is recommended that you go to a specialist, as it may
represent an intranasal tumor. If you have no bleeding, you can successfully treat
nasal polyps at home without resorting to drugs or surgery.
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