Show Notes
Living with a blocked or runny nose? Tired, feeling congested, unable to sleep and lethargic? This episode with Ms Mona Thornton is for you.
Ms. Mona Thornton, Consultant ENT surgeon at St Vincent’s University and the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear University Hospitals and specialist at St Vincent’s Private Hospital is also an associate clinical professor at UCD who sub-specialises in inflammatory and allergic conditions of the nose and sinuses. She is Co-Founder and current President of the Irish Rhinologic Society and she joins me today to take us through the steps and stages of following your nose from problem to solution.
We talk about allergies, polyps, chronic sinusitis, when it’s time for an ent specialist and the nasal solutions available for different conditions and patients.
Hosted by Sinead O’Moore, created by The Irish Rhinologic Society this episode is supported by Uniphar Med Tech This podcast was produced by The Brand Story.
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