Nasal diseases and psychological distress

Abstract

A high rate of ENT doctors were murdered by nasal disordered patients in China recently. It is obviously important and urgent to find out whether there is any potential relationship between nasal diseases (ND) and psychological distress that might contribute to violent behavior. For this purpose, we carried out this literature review. There is a complex relationship between ND and psychiatric distress, which is mainly considered as a bidirectional causal relationship with other controversy opinions. However, most of the previous studies were found to be focused on allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis, while reports about other ND were rare. Further study is still needed to uncover the secret aspects in this field, and more attentions need to be paid to other ND.

Keywords:

• nasal diseases
• psychological distress
• allergic rhinitis
• chronic rhinosinusitis

Acknowledgement

Special thanks to Joseph Dick Lam for his assistance in this research.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.