Drug side effects on the nasal mucosa and sense of smell
Gastpar, H.
Laryngologie Rhinologie Otologie 65(8): 415-419
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0340-1588 PMID: 3762274 Document Number: 278002
Several drugs may induce pathologic changes of the nasal mucosa, especially at a long-term treatment. The clinical appearance of an allergic or vasomotoric rhinopathy, a chronical hyperplastic or an atrophic rhinitis, hemorrhagic changes of the mucosa with the incidence of epistaxis or smelling disorders may be caused by several drugs. The ENT-specialist, therefore, should always take in consideration the various drugs, which the patient received but mostly have been prescribed by another doctor.