What may increase your risk for a problem from an object in the nose?
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What may increase your risk for a problem from an object in the nose?
Many conditions, lifestyle choices, medicines, and diseases interfere with your ability to heal or fight infection. You may be at risk for a more serious problem from your symptoms if you have any of the following. Be sure to tell your health professional.
Conditions
- Being a child younger than 3 years of age with an object in the nose
- A problem or condition present since birth
- A developmental delay or mental retardation
- Communication difficulties caused by another condition, such as Alzheimer's disease or a stroke
- Mental health problem, such as schizophrenia
- Previous injury
- Previous surgery to injured area
- Structural problems, such as a deviated septum or nasal polyps
- Surgery to remove the spleen
Lifestyle choices
- Alcohol abuse or withdrawal
- Drug abuse or withdrawal
- Smoking or other tobacco use
Medications
- Blood-thinning medicines, such as warfarin, heparin, Lovenox, Plavix, and aspirin
- Corticosteroids, such as prednisone or prescription corticosteroid nasal spray
- Medicines to prevent organ transplant rejection
- Medicines used to treat cancer (chemotherapy)
- Radiation therapy
Diseases
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Hemophilia
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
- Kidney disease
- Liver disease
- Lupus
- Malnutrition or an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia
- Multiple sclerosis
- Osteomyelitis
- Sickle cell disease
Credits
| Author | Jan Nissl, RN, BS |
| Editor | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA |
| Associate Editor | Tracy Landauer |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | Charles M. Myer, III, MD - Otolaryngology |
| Last Updated | April 20, 2007 |
| Last updated: | April 20, 2007 |
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| Author: | Jan Nissl, RN, BS |
| Reviewed By: | William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine, Charles M. Myer, III, MD - Otolaryngology |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer |
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