More people in Belgium are arriving at clinics with serious lesions in their noses amid rising cocaine consumption, doctors say. The ear nose and throat (ENT) clinic of Liège’s University Hospital Centre (CHU) often sees patients with nasal obstruction. Cocaine can cause blood vessels to narrow in the nose which can damage tissue. This can lead to perforations in the mucose membrane and the cartilage. “There is damage to both the mucus membrane and cartilage so to the nasal septum, which is affected, as well as the internal structures,” said Dr Sophie Tombu, a doctor at the ENT clinic at Liège…