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What are nasal polyps?Know the Symptoms and Treatment

What are nasal polyps?  Do you feel your nose remains blocked most of the time? Over many months?  When you catch cold, you feel it extremely difficult to inhale air through your nose? Does the congestion feel on one nostril more than the other? or Do you have feeling as if something is blocking your normal nasal passage? Well, it can be due to nasal polyps. You might have heard of uterine or endometrial polyps.  But what are nasal polyps and what do they do in our noses? OK. Let us find out all about Nasal  polyps. Image by  PublicDomainPictures  from  Pixabay   Nasal polyps are soft,flesh-like benign or non-cancerous growths on the lining of the nasal cavity or sinuses.  The growth looks like a soft mass of tissue consisting of nasal mucosa that can cover your nostril partially or fully thus blocking your nose.  Nasal polyps can happen in one or both the nostrils at the same time. The shape of the nasal polyp may look like a drop of te...