Sinus polyps are benign growths in the nasal cavity, often associated with asthma, aspirin or yellow dye allergies, and airborne fungi reactions. Symptoms include impaired smell, stuffiness, runny nose, and post-nasal drip. Treatment involves corticosteroids or surgery. Large polyps may cause severe allergic reactions or infections, requiring immediate medical attention.
Sinus polyps are painless, benign sac-like growths that hang in the nasal cavity. It is not known what causes breast polyps, but they are strongly associated with people with asthma, an allergy to aspirin or yellow dye, or an allergic reaction to airborne fungi. The most common sinus polyp symptoms are an impaired sense of smell, a prolonged feeling of choking, a runny nose, and post-nasal drip. Other symptoms associated with the sinus polyp are a decreased sense of taste, snoring, mouth breathing, and itching around the eyes. Breast polyps are first treated with corticosteroids and, when that fails, with surgery.
Small breast polyps are typically asymptomatic, and most people don’t even know when they have one. When they enlarge and block the nasal cavity, the most common sinus polyp symptoms are a decrease or loss of smell, a long-term stuffiness, and a runny nose with postnasal drip. Other sinus polyp symptoms include a loss of sense of taste, snoring, breathing through the mouth, and itching around the eyes. Headache, pain or a feeling of pressure in the face, and pain in the upper teeth are other symptoms associated with sinus polyps, but these symptoms usually only occur when the sinus polyp has caused a buildup of drainage and has produced an infection of the breast.
Large nasal polyps rarely require immediate medical attention. The exception to this is if the normal breast polyp symptoms suddenly get worse and there is difficulty breathing, swelling around the eyes, eye problems such as double vision, trouble seeing, limited eye movement, or an intense headache along with at high fever. When these breast polyp symptoms occur, a doctor should be seen without delay. The presence of these types of symptoms signals a severe allergic reaction complicated by nasal polyps or an infection caused by blocked drainage of the sinuses.
The first course of treatment for nasal polyps is with corticosteroids, but if that doesn’t shrink or clear the polyps, surgery is done. When used to treat nasal polyps, corticosteroids are typically given as a nasal spray, but they can also be taken as a pill or injection. Sometimes an oral steroid is prescribed in combination with a nasal spray. If steroid treatment fails, the polyp is removed using one of two fairly simple outpatient procedures. Nasal polyps can be removed using a microdebrider, a thin instrument that can both cut and aspirate dissected tissue, or with endoscopic surgery to remove hard-to-reach nasal polyps.
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