The use of Honey in Nasal Packing

Chronic hypertrophic rhinitis is the end resultof chronic mucosal swelling which may be due to, lowgrade chronic infection, allergy or long standing cases of vasomotor rhinitis. Its symptoms are mainlyobstructive in nature and characterised by constant orfrequent nasal obstruction and headache, sneezing andrhinorrhea occasionally occur.•Honey today is a component of many commerciallymanufactured pharmaceutical products. At least 2000papers and articles have been published in scientificand medical journals and elsewhere describing variousbiological effects of honey.Honey is an t ibacter ial ,substance which is natural,easly available.hyproscopic and osmaticsimple, inexpensive andThe aim of this work was to evaluate honey as atherapeutic agent in the treatment of chronic hyper-trophic rhinitis clinically, bacteriologically, histo-pathologically and histochemically.The presented study was done on 30chron ic hyper tr oph ic which were eval uatedpatients ofclinically,