My Illness and How I deal with it: Allergic Rhinitis

Assalamualaikum and good day semua,

I have been thinking of sharing few illnesses that i myself suffered which we can share ideas of controling or managing them....the first illness that i want to expose ...ha...ha...macam rahsia pulak....is my Allergic Rhinitis.





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Bahasa kita orang Malaysia ialah Resdung...but it is always misdefined.

Okay..let us accept the fact that Resdung means problematic nose, or sensitive nose or smells from breath due to nose discharge, or greenish persistent discharge (hingus) from nose, or to some people means penyakit yang menyebabkan tumbuh jerawat batu di sekitar hidung....yang bila dirawat secara tradisional akan keluar 'ulat-ulat' kecil dari kulit muka....yang dipercayai ulat penyebab resdung.

Then medically, we divide so called Resdung into... basically 2 types; Allergic Rhinitis & Sinusitis.
Sinusitis is probably the best description for Resdung.


If you have Allergic Rhinitis or sensitive nose (for simple explanation...banyak lagi jenis rhinitis ni sebenarnya) you will experienced these....

Morning symptoms (tanda) that dissapear towards afternoon. Ini termasuk, bersin, hidung gatal, selesema (running nose), berhingus berlebihan (increase in discharge, it can be clear to greenish)

Symptoms can reappear if exposed in large amount with dust, cold weather or environment for example in cold aircond room, pollen (debunga) in 4 season countries.

You will not have signs of infection like fever or cough and generalized body pain. Or in other words you are not sick.

Sinusitis pula;

Stuffy nose or hidung sumbat dengan hingus/mucus yang hijau atau kekuningan dan pekat
Facial bone pain atau sakit bila ditekan tulang pipi
Headache or facial bone pain when stooping down or tunduk kepala sakit tulang pipi
with or without fever....can cause bad breath

My Experience;

I am troubled with chronic sinusitis and allergic rhinitis (vasomotor type) since i were schooling in secondary school. Every day i have to bring 1 box of tissue with me and every morning after taking bath until 12 noon, i will be accompanied by my good friends;
sneezing every 20 minutes, running nose, greenish mucos discharge and red ithcy eyes.

Malu and low self esteem semua ada, nak concentrate in class also difficult. Apa lagi bad breath..

So my father bring me to see ENT specialist after failing many types of medication that only control the flu like symptoms.

My nose and its deep cavity explored and cleaned during visits that i have to follow every 3 months. No surgery involved. I was asked to get this nasal spray medication every day and i use them faithfully every day and night....

Only after 6 months later i got some relieve and near total cured after 1 year...Alhamdullilah.

Now my allergic rhinitis comes and goes but not that severe and controlled with medication.

This is what you should do and practice if you have these problem...

to be continued....