Comparison of postoperative effect between two cleansing solutions after endoscopic sinus surgery

OBJECTIVE To compare the postoperative effect between two cleansing solutions after endoscopic sinus surgery.METHODS 75 cases diagnosed with chronic nasosinusitis were treated with functional endoscopic sinus surgery and were randomly divided into three groups.They were irrigated with granule diluent of Chinese medicine,Nasal Coke Nasal Douche and normal saline respectively after surgery.The curative time lasted 1 month to 3 months and operative effect was evaluated under nasal endoscope at 1,2 and 3 months,while subjective symptom was evaluated depending on visual analogue scale(VAS).RESULTS Efficacy of Nasal Coke Nasal Douche was better than that of Chinese medicine only in the first month(by operative effect,t =2.516,P =0.015;by VAS,χ2=3.947,P =0.047),but not at second month and third month.CONCLUSION Efficacy of Nasal Coke Nasal Douche was better than that of Chinese medicine in short period of time.