Why Do Some People Feel More Pain With Covid PCR Swab Tests Than Others

The mucous membrane covering the inside of the nose is not very resistant to mechanical traumas, unlike our skin covering the outer part of our body. On the mucous membrane in the nose, there are mucus layer, cilia structure, free nerve endings, and glands. Reactions such as feeling of pain, feeling of sneezing or coughing, tearing or an increase in nasal secretion secretion with a reflex mechanism, when any object (nasal swab used for covid test, q type, finger) is contacted with the mucous membrane in the nose. may occur. In patients with nasal septum deviation, nasal valve collapse, turbinate hypertrophy, and intranasal mass, there may be more pain than normal when placing the nasal swab! Nasal swabs inserted into the nose for the Covid-19 test should be advanced to the nasopharynx. In case of “nasal septum deviation, nasal valve stenosis, turbinate hypertrophy, intranasal mass“ ...