ROME (ITALPRESS) – Inflammatory, chronic, persistent pathology with a strong impact on physical and emotional well-being, nasal polyposis affects about 2-4% of the population. Despite this, the knowledge of the pathology is still scarce and the most serious patients give up treatment due to lack of solution options. This was discussed at the online event “Don’t ‘bang your nose’ against nasal polyposis”, promoted by Sanofi, which also presented the awareness campaign “Win against the discomforts of nasal polyposis”. “Often people suffering from chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis, especially in the most severe forms, have a long and complex path of diagnosis and treatment with the need to periodically resort to surgery to free the nose”, said Gaetano Paludetti, president of the Italian Society. of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, director of the UOC of Otolaryngology of the A. Gemelli IRCCS University Hospital and Catholic University. “They are unlikely to be able to resolve the problem – he added – through chronic intranasal or systemic cortisone-based therapies, which have so far been considered the standard of treatment”. For Gianenrico Senna, president of SIAAIC (Italian Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology), “the key element from the point of view of the pathogenesis of this disease is the inflammatory cascade, which is a concatenation of events that occur in the microenvironment in which both mediators participate. both cells. In this chain – he explained -, the initial moment can be various, it can be the allergen or irritating factors such as pollution or the virus “. According to Mario Bussi, director of the Otolaryngology unit of IRCCS San Raffaele in Milan and president of the Congress of the Italian Society of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (SIOeChCF), among the symptoms that “must lead the patient to be checked” are the ” block of nasal breathing, mainly bilateral “, the” progressive disappearance of essential sensory forms such as smell and, as a consequence, taste “and then” there may be the symptom of weight in the head, although perhaps the headache is associated in way too easy to sinusitis, “he added. Sanofi’s awareness campaign aims to provide patients with the tools to be properly informed about the disease, allows them to identify the nearest otolaryngology and allergology center through the website www.thenextbreath.it and is sponsored by five scientific societies ( AICNA, AIITO, IAR, SIAAIC and SIOeChCF) and by the two patient associations active at national level (Federasma and Allergie Onlus and the Italian Federation of Patients and Breathing Together). “It is an information campaign on nasal polyposis – said Michele Barletta, head of the Respiratory area – Sanofi Immunology Franchise – and to raise awareness on the problem. Our commitment was to try to facilitate the possibility of finding useful information through the digital channel “. “We were very happy to support this campaign”, said Simona Barbaglia, president of Respiriamo Insieme Onlus, underlining that patients “go through an ordeal that is sometimes long, of years, to arrive at a correct diagnosis, not having adequate tools and living often a discomfort caused by loneliness in having to face a pathology they do not know. Our duty – he added – is to collaborate to improve information and awareness on this pathology “. Nadia Magaró of FederAsma highlighted how “nasal polyposis can have a negative impact” on the lives of patients, with “disorders that require adequate and multidisciplinary management”. For Magaró it is also necessary to consider the psychological aspect, especially in relation to the “loss of smell and taste” which “also prevents the memory of many life events”. “We need to make a fairly early diagnosis – added Paludetti -, try to cure the problems from the beginning, more in-depth examinations to perform and work together with a multidisciplinary team”. For Paludetti, the wish is that “the campaign will be useful to patients, doctors and also to those who face the problem from a research point of view”. (ITALPRESS). ym / mgg / red 25-May-21 15:10
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