What?
Yeah, that’s what I thought, too.
Postnasal means ‘in the back of the nasal cavity’, and the drip, well, that refers to the flow of mucous secretion onto the wall of the pharynx (that bit between your mouth and your food pipe). You get postnasal drip for a while when you have a cold or a virus, but its also one of the many (more permanent) annoying symptoms of allerigic rhinitis. I am a post-nasal dripper, and I’ve never ever thought about it until now.
For me, its that feeling that I must just blow my nose or sniff to clear my nasal passages. Now that I come to think about how often it happens, I really can’t say. Sometimes its constant, and sometimes it will be just a few times an hour. That’s why I’ve always got tissues! The ‘mucous secretions’ are not like they are when you’ve got a cold, though. For me they are thin, watery and completely clear - no worse than thick tears. I was interested to read in this article, that you can produce up to 4 pints of secretions in a day!
Crikey!
Would anyone else like to share their experiences of PND?
