the aim of this study was to assess the frequency of rhinitis in asthmatic infants. a cross-sectional study was conducted using clinical data obtained from a standardized allergy work-up form that includes specific questions on common allergic diseases. asthmatic patients were seen at the first visit to the pediatric allergy unit, from january 2001 to january 2006, were selected for analysis. d...

Nonallergic rhinitis (NAR) conditions are currently considered diagnoses by exclusion. A diagnosis of NAR requires negative specific IgE responses by skin or serologic testing and more recently testing to exclude localized production of specific IgE in the nose. Symptoms are classically aggravated by irritant triggers such as tobacco smoke, perfumes/fragrances, and temperature or barometric pre...

Introduction: Chronic cough is a common problem in childhood. Simple viral infections can cause chronic cough, as well underlying progressive diseases. For this reason, guidelines that be applied clinical practice are very valuable. In our study, we aimed to evaluate school-age patients with the light of literature.
 Material Method:
 The files children over age 6 who pediatric allerg...

Background In the last years, studies have demonstrated that chronic rhinits is a common disorder in elderly patients, although epidemiologic data related to this population is sparing. Indeed, there is no information regarding the prevalence of rhinits in the elderly in Brazil. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence, clinic features and severity of allergic rhinitis (AR) in the ...

In general practice many of the patients come with a problem of allergic rhinitis and having history of taking medicines like levocetrizine or cetrizine with or without use nasal steroidal spray but the problem persists since several years with little or no improvements. As per my clinical practice I used some new approach with the conventional prescriptions on more than 50 patients who are hav...

Introduction: Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a common airway disease. In order to study  the  prevalence of  AR in high school students  in  Kerman, the Score for Allergic Rhinitis (SFAR) was used and the quality of life  in  the  students  affected  by  rhinitis was  evaluated using the SF-36 questionnaire.   Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional, analytical, descriptive study, based o...

It's been 40 years since Niels Mygind publication in British Medical Journal on intranasal application of beclomethasonedipropionate aerosol in Allergic Rhinitis. Since then the new era in treatment of allergic and non-allergic upper airway diseases has begun. This publication presents current concepts on application of intranasal glucocorticosteroids in treatment of upper airway diseases and i...

Both allergic rhinitis and bronchial asthma are inflammatory diseases in the respiratory tract. The upper and lower airways share many anatomical, physiological, and histological properties. A close relationship between allergic rhinitis and asthma has been established, and the “united airway disease hypothesis” proposes that upper and lower airway diseases are both manifestations of a single i...

Studying associations between sibship characteristics and allergic diseases in detail may contribute clues to their etiology. The authors studied associations between sibship characteristics and risk of self-reported allergic rhinitis and asthma among 31,145 pregnant women participating in a nationwide study in Denmark during 1997-2000. Increasing sibship size was associated with a decreased ri...