Bleeding, colds, coronavirus, snoring, spa treatments : better understand nose pathologies.

In the vast majority of cases, it is a child who bleeds frequently from the nose (on one or both sides) and who returns regularly to the consultation. The examination reveals small vessels on the vascular spot (the front wall of the nasal septum), forming a real tree-like structure. These vessels are fragile and bleed at the slightest local mishap (untimely scratching, chronic purulent or…

What is commonly called "cold" is a rhinopharyngitis - that is to say an affection of the upper airways (nasal cavity and pharynx) - very often benign, mainly seasonal (winter) but not only, triggered in 40% of the cases by a specific virus (the rhinovirus) but also by other types of viruses known since "always": the adenovirus, the respiratory syncytial virus, the influenza virus (the…

Since the Roman period and throughout the following centuries, the curists frequented the thermal establishments implanted for the most part in the exact location of the ancient Roman baths. In the XIXth century, inhalations were added, often used in pathologies ENT and we associate the benefits of the water of cure by using it as simple drink. The first and second Empire were prosperous periods…

This presentation does not pretend to be exhaustive, especially a few weeks after the coronavirus pandemic. Its aim is to summarize succinctly and as clearly as possible the clinical signs - described and known - of this affection and particularly the specific ENT clinical signs, less known, which one can be confronted with and, corollary, to try to distinguish what belongs to a coronavirus affection…

When we sleep, snoring is the noise caused, during inspiration but not exclusively, by the vibration of certain soft tissues, relaxed. Snoring classically affects men in their fifties, but not only. After a certain age, particularly in obese subjects (fatty infiltration of the tissues concerned - base of the tongue, soft palate), with a neck that is sometimes short, or affected by retrognathism (recessed lower…