OBJECTIVES Allergic and nonallergic rhinitis are very common disease for children, however, little is known about their natural courses in the general population. The purpose is to evaluate the natural course of allergic and nonallergic rhinitis in children. METHODS We analyzed data from Snoring Child Cohort of 178 children (107 boys and 71 girls). All children entered the study at the age of...

BACKGROUND It has been well known that pediatric allergic rhinitis was associated with poor performance at school due to attention deficit. However, there were no cohort studies for the effect of treatment of allergic rhinitis on attention performance in pediatric population. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate whether attention performance was improved after treatment in children wi...

Chronic rhinitis is a very common disease, as the prevalence in the general population resulted to be 40%. Allergic rhinitis has been considered to be the most frequent form of chronic rhinitis, as non-allergic rhinitis has been estimated to account for 25%. However, several evidences suggested that non-allergic rhinitis have been underrated, especially in children. In pediatrics, the diagnosti...

inhalation of fungal spores is shown to participate in the development of allergic rhinitis symptoms. in this study, relation between presence of alternaria in the human nasal cavity and allergic rhinitis is assessed. in a case-control study, 58 allergic rhinitis patients were compared with a well-matched control group of fifty healthy volunteers for sensitization to alternaria (by skin prick t...

allergic rhinitis is a chronic respiratory disease. sympathetic hypofunction is identified in all of the allergic rhinitis patients. moreover, allergic rhinitis is associated with decreased peak nasal inspiratory flow (pnif) and impaired lung functions. the aim of this study was to investigate effects of six-week of aquatic exercise on the autonomic nervous system function, pnif and lung functi...

Allergic diseases represent a major public health problem worldwide. The frequency of allergic rhinitis in the general population is 10-20%, 68% which seasonal rhinitis. In 57.14% patients with rhinitis, initial vagotonia combined predominantly over-provisioning activity hyperdiastolic type was found. According to severity course exacerbation 18,25% had mild course, 57,94% - medium and 23,81% s...

The current population-based study investigated the onset of neonatal urinary tract infection (UTI) and the associated risks of allergic rhinitis. From 2000 to 2005, 3285 children with neonatal UTI and 13,128 randomly selected controls were enrolled from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan and frequency matched by gender, urbanization of residential area, parental occupati...