Introduction: Allergic rhinitis is an inflammatory disorder of the nose which occurs when the membranes lining the nose become sensitised to allergens. Although not classed as a life-threatening disease, allergic rhinitis can reduce the patient’s quality of life. Mometasonefuroate is a glucocorticosteroid used topically to reduce inflammation of the skin or in the airways. It is a prodrug of th...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of allergic rhinitis in a random group of schoolchildren aged 13 to 14 years in Brasilia, Brazil, to evaluate tendencies over 6 years and to compare prevalence rates among different socioeconomic groups. METHODS Two cross-sectional studies were undertaken 6 years apart, using the ISAAC (phases I and III) written questionnaire. Thirty-nine schools were cho...

BACKGROUND Although quality of life studies suggest that allergic rhinitis has a substantial impact on work impairment, national survey estimates of the magnitude of this impairment have varied widely. Retrospective recall bias is likely to be a major cause of this variability. OBJECTIVE This study used a nationally representative daily diary sample to obtain prospective data that improve on ...

allergic rhinitis (ar) is a common form of allergic disorder in iran and rest of the world. this study was conducted to investigate the symptoms and paraclinical aspects of this allergy among iranian patients. a total of 206 patients (51.5%: male), with one of the specific symptoms of ar, from march 2005 to march 2007 were enrolled in the study. a written questionnaire was completed for each pa...

Allergy affects at least one-quarter of European schoolchildren, it reduces quality of life and may impair school performance; there is a risk of severe reactions and, in rare cases, death. Allergy is a multi-system disorder, and children often have several co-existing diseases, i.e. allergic rhinitis, asthma, eczema and food allergy. Severe food allergy reactions may occur for the first time a...

Allergic rhinitis is presently the most common chronic disorder in the pediatric population. It can affect sleep at night and cause daytime sleepiness, with school absenteeism, "presenteeism" or inattention, mood disturbances and psychosocial problems. All this in turn can contribute to reduce school performance. The correct treatment of allergic rhinitis can improve school performance, though ...

Allergy to Prolene suture is exceedingly rare with only 5 cases reported in the literature. There have been no such cases associated with neurosurgical procedures. Diagnosis is nearly always delayed in spite of persistent symptomatology. A 27-year-old girl with suspected Ehlers-Danlos, connective tissue disorder, underwent posterior fossa decompression for Chiari Type 1 malformation. One year l...

BACKGROUND Capsaicin has been shown previously to reduce nasal complaints in patients with a non-allergic non-infectious perennial rhinitis. Proposed pathophysiological mechanisms for non-allergic non-infectious perennial rhinitis include a chronic inflammatory disorder of an antigenic or neurogenic nature as well as the possibility of a functional neuronal disorder. We hypothesized that the be...

The prevalence of allergic rhinitis, a common respiratory disorder, may be rapidly increasing. Epidemiological studies, however, indicate little about its association with climatic factors and air pollution. The relationship between traffic-related air pollutants and allergic rhinitis in middle-school students was therefore investigated. In a nationwide survey of middle-school students in Taiwa...