Dr. Ibtihaj Saleh Gharib (ear, nose and throat consultant) revealed that snoring affects about 45 percent of adult people sometimes, and it occurs permanently in about 25 percent of adults, and increases with age, and it is more male than female. The cause of snoring is partial obstruction of the airway in the nasopharynx, oropharynx, and the back of the tongue. This came on the sidelines of the Seventh International Conference of the Saudi Otolaryngology Society, and the Eighth International Conference of the Gulf Cooperation Council Societies for Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, which is being held by the Saudi Otolaryngology Society in cooperation with King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah, which is inaugurated this evening by His Royal Highness Prince Mishaal bin Majid bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Jeddah, on behalf of His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Al-Faisal, Governor of Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region. A group of participating doctors present working papers dealing with ear, nose and throat diseases. Dr. Abdullah Saleh Bajaber deals with the issue of allergic rhinitis, explaining that allergic rhinitis is a common disease, and there may be a genetic factor. It may infect humans permanently or seasonal, such as spring or autumn, and is caused by tree pollen and some grain pollen, and may occur throughout the year due to dust, pet hair, some foods, cigarette smoke, shisha, cosmetics or some types of soap, indicating that the allergy The nose is a disease known to many people, especially those who suffer from it, and there may be more than one person in the same family who suffers from one of the types of allergies such as eye allergy, chest allergy or skin allergy (eczema). Diagnose the disease and the appropriate medications and sprays.
As for Dr. Abdel Hakim Mahmoud Hamdan (an ear, nose and throat specialist), he will discuss in his lecture about nasal polyps (a word that doctors use metaphorically to refer to any soft tissue that contributes to nasal obstruction or disrupting any of its functions such as smelling, for example), explaining that when the term nasal polyps is used in patients From young people, it usually means the adenoids behind the nose, which is a lymphoid tissue originally located in the nasopharynx, an area located in the upper part of the pharynx, which is located behind the internal nostrils. He added that the doctor diagnoses this case by reviewing the medical history and doing an x-ray of the nasopharynx. Dr. Hamdan stresses that the treatment is either a drug to reduce the severity of infections or allergies, or a surgical treatment when the response to drug treatment is simple. The optical endoscopy of the nose is also used in excision of the adenoids behind the nose, as the excision is more comprehensive.
And about the treatment of snoring, said d. Strange delight: The treatment is basically a treatment for the causes that lead to it, such as weight loss and treatment of thyroid laziness, and there are non-surgical ways to relieve snoring, such as urging the patient to sleep on his side instead of on his back with the delivery of a kind of stimuli on the back to prevent the patient from taking Dorsal recumbent position during deep sleep.
In addition, Dr. Nizar Fakih (ear, nose and throat consultant) reviews in his lecture the aspect of rhinoplasty, explaining that rhinoplasty is the most common operation in the world, as the nose is one of the prominent and important organs in the face, as it is the external extension of the upper respiratory system in addition to its role It is prominent in filtering and humidifying the air by the mucous glands, and has a prominent role in the process of smelling different smells and a passage for the discharge of secretions of the lacrimal glands and sinuses, and it is very important in giving the outer aesthetic shape of the nose.
He pointed out that there are two types of plastic surgery The internal type and the external type, the internal one is done from the inside of the nose through a wound inside the nose and separating the cartilage of the nostrils from the skin and reshaping and stitching, either lengthening or shortening the nostril, in addition to narrowing the nasal bone by breaking it medially and laterally, and the outer one is by a procedure Incision in the middle skin between the nostrils, lifting the skin and then reshaping the nostrils and narrowing the bone.
