Too much cold air entering the nostrils
Well…Recently I have developed a weird symptom. I think I have had it for a month. My nose has no mucus, booger and when I inhale, I feel like there is too much air entering my nostrils so I have to use something to block part of it. Otherwise I feel so uncomfortable and suffocated. My right nostril is getting worse, there is no congestion or anything and sometimes my face or nose seems to lose sensation. When the turbinates work normally, they will shrink and swell up and provide warm air but this does not happen to my nose. All the air I breathe in is cold and is not warm at all. I am just wondering what causes it because for people who have atrophic sinusitis, they will have nose blockage. But I do not, I feel my nose is so empty and too much air entering them when inhaling even my nose is not dried. I hope somebody could help.
I have checked my nose, I do not see any turbinates, only hair and the holes of my nose. I have never done any turbinate reduction or nasal surgery.
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I was on oxygen therapy and the tube pumped constant cool air into my nostrils which dried them out to an uncomfortable situation.(made my nostrils dry and bleeding. A nebulizer with warm most air for my lung congestion remedied that. Try some type of humidifier
@jwkelly72
Was the dryness just inside your nostrils? How long did it take to feel better?
Mostly my nostrils, lil in my mouth. Took a short time just days to get relief
How often did you use humidifier?
This is precisely what I experience during a cold. I have a cold right now, and it's the same story, half way through its progress, I wake early in the morning to a burning cold sensation in one nostril, practically causing a headache.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's not permanent, just experienced it this morning, and finally decided to seek a solution. That's when I found this thread. I hope someone comes up with a simple solution to this. Thanks!