The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by a stuffy nose:
Psyche – Nervous System (F00-F99; G00-G99).
- Insomnia (sleep disorders) – difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep.
Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).
- Dysosmia (olfactory disorder; olfactory disorder).
- Rhonchopathy (snoring) – an existing rhonchopathy can be aggravated by obstructed nasal breathing or its therapeutic success can be reduced (the same applies to obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, OSAS/breathing stops during sleep, which are caused by obstruction of the airways and often occur several hundred times per night)
- Xerostomia (dry mouth) – due to mouth breathing because of blocked nose.
Further
- Work performance is reduced
- Impairments during sports
- Quality of life is reduced
