What causes nasal congestion when a person doesn have allergies?
What causes nasal congestion when a person doesn’t have allergies?Answer: While nasal congestion is commonly caused by allergic rhinitis, there are some nonallergic conditions that cause nasal congestion in children as well. Nasal congestion can be caused by structural abnormalities, such as septal deviation, concha bullosa and adenoid hypertrophy, as well as chronic sinusitis and nonallergic rhinitis, such as vasomotor rhinitis and secondary to gastroesophageal reflux disease. Structural Abnormalities Whenever I see a child with nasal congestion that is not caused by allergies (meaning that the allergy testing is negative), I am always concerned about structural abnormalities as the cause. Typically, structural problems will cause nasal congestion that is mostly constant, and that doesn’t change from one nostril to the other. Structural abnormalities may include
