What to do if pregnant women have rhinitis and itchy eyes

If a pregnant woman has rhinitis and itchy eyes at the same time, it is likely caused by allergic rhinitis. So what should pregnant women do if they have rhinitis and itchy eyes? In fact, there are many treatments for allergic rhinitis. Most people will choose the safer traditional Chinese medicine treatment, especially pregnant women. Let’s learn some relevant knowledge about allergic rhinitis so as to choose the appropriate treatment method.

There are three main typical clinical manifestations: continuous paroxysmal sneezing, large amounts of clear watery nasal discharge and nasal congestion. Patients often have several sneezing paroxysms every day, which are often aggravated when getting up in the morning or at night, and each attack may be as few as a few or as many as dozens of sneezing. The large amount of clear nasal discharge causes the need to change several handkerchiefs or consume a lot of toilet paper every day. Some people often soak their pillowcases when sleeping. The severity of nasal congestion varies, and may be intermittent or continuous. The vast majority of patients feel itching inside the nose, and sometimes outside the nose, soft palate, face, and external auditory canal. Seasonal rhinitis is more obvious in the itching of the eyes. The patient's sense of smell is often reduced or disappeared, which is mostly temporary, but can also become a permanent loss of smell. Allergic rhinitis generally does not cause headaches unless it is complicated by allergic sinusitis and nasal polyps form over time.

Patients with allergic rhinitis sometimes develop a horizontal wrinkle below the lower eyelid margins on both sides. This is related to the patients wrinkling their noses and squinting their eyes too much due to itchy noses and eyes. Nasal endoscopy can reveal that the patients' nasal mucosa is mostly pale and edematous, or light blue. Some patients' nasal mucosa is congested and dark red, which is most obvious in the lower turbinate. Severely edematous nasal mucosa may develop polyp-like changes or form polyps over time. Therefore, allergic rhinitis is one of the most likely causes of nasal polyps.

Generally speaking, perennial allergic rhinitis is prone to occur when cleaning the room, tidying up bedding and cotton clothes, or smelling moldy odors, and is more sensitive to cold air and weather changes, especially in the mornings and nights when the weather gets cooler. Seasonal allergic rhinitis begins during the pollen dispersal period, and will heal without treatment after the flowering period is over. So why do some patients have attacks in spring, some in summer, and some in autumn, but all seasonal rhinitis will be cured in winter? This is determined by the patient's allergy to different pollens. For example, autumn is the time when corn pollen is spread, so the patient will have an attack in this season. Attacks in other seasons are also caused by the spread of different pollens. In winter, all flowers, plants and trees enter a dormant period, so there is naturally no pollen spread, and seasonal allergic rhinitis will heal without treatment.