What kind of a disease is Deviated Nasal Septum? What are it's symptoms and how is it cured?

Question

Deviated nasal septum is not a disease. The nasal septum divides the nose into the rt.& lt. Nostrils. Majority of the people have a septal deviation. As long as it does not cause any symptoms like blocking of the nose / headache / sinus involvement it is best to leave the deviation alone. If it creates the symptome mentioned above then it is better to undergo surgery. The medical term used for the straightening of the septum is called septoplasty. There is no medicine which can rectify this deviation.

Ravindranath Kudva · Accepted Answer

Deviated nasal septum is not a disease. The nasal septum divides the nose into the rt.& lt. Nostrils. Majority of the people have a septal deviation. As long as it does not cause any symptoms like blocking of the nose / headache / sinus involvement it is best to leave the deviation alone. If it creates the symptome mentioned above then it is better to undergo surgery. The medical term used for the straightening of the septum is called septoplasty. There is no medicine which can rectify this deviation.

Parveen Chawla · Answer

If a person suffering from nasal obstruction with mild to moderate nasal allergies it means most probably he is suffering from dns (deviated nasal septum. Nasal obstruction is because of the deviated portion of the nasal septum (this is the bony partition of the nose cavity. Allergies are because of the hampered muco-ciliary mechanism (normally mucus is produced in the nose to moisten our nose cavity, oral cavity, and help food bolus to move downward, this mucus is basically moves on the cilia of the nasal mucosa) this mechanism gets hampered and mucus start accumulating in the nose and sinus cavity which is why thick mucus comes from nose in patients of nose obstruction and person develops sinusiits. When a surgeon removes the nasal septum deviation has not been removed properly the symptoms persists, and patient thinks that the nose bone has again regrown. It is not because of regrowth but because of half surgery done or due to the non removal of the deviation (reason can be many) nowadays nasal septal deviation can be removed endoscopically.