Symptoms of Reinke’s edema
Reinke’s edema is one of the chronic laryngitis and its main symptom is continuous hoarseness.
When this disease grows in size then it often causes shortness of breath by blocking the chord glottis.
Treatment for Reinke’s edema
The conservative treatment involves removing the source of irritant in the larynx, vocal treatments, and smoking cessation.
Surgeries include laryngo-micro surgery using laryngo-micro equipments or CO2 laser
which removes the submucosal edema to help restore the normal vocal fold tissue.
