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Runny nose with some common infectious diseases
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Runny nose with typhus. Sometimes with this infectious disease there is a nosebleed caused by the defeat of the mucous membrane of the septum of the nose by the causative agent of this disease - the rickettsia of Provacek - with the appearance of perforation of the cartilage. Consequences of the common cold are "dry" perforation of the septum of the nose, atrophic rhinitis and anosmia.
Runny nose with smallpox. Thanks to the universal vaccine vaccination this disease, respectively - and a runny nose, in developed countries - an exceptionally rare phenomenon. In cases where the runny nose appears as one of the manifestations of smallpox, ulcers in the nasal mucosa area and profuse nasal bleeding are observed, after which the synechiaes, scarring of the nasal passages and the vestibule of the nose, nasal breathing and anosmia are preserved.
Runny nose with sapa is characterized by abundant mucopurulent discharge from the nose, ulcers in the mucous membrane of the septum of the nose and nasal conchaes, a tendency to spread into the pharyngeal region.
Coryza during cerebrospinal meningitis usually goes unnoticed. He is diagnosed only after his complication, meningitis, arose. Usually, local changes in the nose precede manifestations of meningitis and practically do not differ from the signs of banal rhinitis. A retrospective diagnosis of the common cold with cerebrospinal meningitis is of great epidemiological importance, since most people who have been ill with this disease are carriers of meningococcus.
Coryza in cases of neuroviral diseases, for example, in poliomyelitis, epidemic encephalitis, does not differ from banal rhinitis of light form and usually attracts attention only after the appearance of signs of encephalopathy. This position in many respects testifies that entrance gate for neuroviruses is a mucosa of a nose, and also, that many children having immunity concerning a virus neuroinfection, have probably transferred in the past a rhinitis.
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