| Abstract: | The management of leprous rhinitis is discussed. In patients with early changes in the nose it is thought that local treatment is of psychological rather than of any great physical value. There is, however, a group of patients with early lepromatous leprosy whose nasal involvement is severe and out of all proportion to their general clinical state. It is possible that intensive local treatment of the nose in these patients may help to prevent deformity. Patients with advanced nasal changes giving rise to atrophic rhinitis and external deformities gain much physical, as well as psychological, relief from regular local care of the nose, and this is described below.(AU).
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