Giving medications is only one of several options in the management of rhinitis. Before deciding on the most appropriate medication to prescribe, you will first have to determine the cause of rhinitis: allergic, non-allergic, infectious, occupational, hormonal or drug induced. After that, you decide if there are any non-drug and non surgical methods that may be used to alleviate the symptoms. F...

Introduction Nitric Oxide Source of NO in exhaled air Measurement Asthma COPD Cystic fibrosis Bronchiectasis Primary ciliary dyskinesia Rhinitis Interstitial lung diseases Pulmonary hypertension Occupational diseases Infections Chronic cough Lung cancer Lung transplant rejection Adult respiratory distress syndrome Diffuse Panbronchiolitis Carbon Monoxide Source of exhaled CO Measurement Asthma ...

OBJECTIVE To review the literature on postnasal drip syndrome (PNDS)-induced cough and the various causes of PNDS. Hereafter, PNDS will be referred to as upper airway cough syndrome (UACS). METHODS MEDLINE search (through May 2004) for studies published in the English language since 1980 on human subjects using the medical subject heading terms "cough," "causes of cough," "etiology of cough,"...

Soy products are widely used in a variety of processed foods such as meet products, sausages, chocolate and breakfast cereals. The prevalence of soy allergy in adults is unknown. The development of soy allergy in the late adulthood is rare. In adults soy allergy mostly presents either as an occupational allergy or pollen-food syndrome developed on the ground of birch sensitization. A 38-year-ol...

BACKGROUND The association between chronic respiratory diseases and work disability has been demonstrated a number of times over the past 20 years, but still little is known about work disability in occupational cohorts of workers exposed to respiratory irritants. This study investigated job or task changes due to respiratory problems as an indicator of work disability in pulp mill workers occu...

Gandevia, B., and Milne, J. (1970). Brit. J. industr. Med., 27, 235-244. Occupational asthma and rhinitis due to Western red cedar (Thuja plicata), with special reference to bronchial reactivity. With the increasing use of Western, or Canadian, red cedar (Thuja plicata) in the timber industry, a distinctive respiratory syndrome of rhinitis and asthma has been observed with increasing frequency ...