RHINITIS IS A GLOBAL PROBLEM AND IS DEFINED AS THE PRESENCE OF AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: congestion, rhinorrhea, sneezing, nasal itching, and nasal obstruction. The two major classifications are allergic and nonallergic rhinitis (NAR). Allergic rhinitis occurs when an allergen is the trigger for the nasal symptoms. NAR is when obstruction and rhinorrhea occurs in relation to nonallergic, n...

Introduction: This study evaluated the effect of gelfoam impregnated with botulinum toxin on the symptoms induced by allergic rhinitis. Materials and Methods: In total, 30 patients with allergic rhinitis who did not respond to common therapies were included in this clinical trial study. All patients were treated with intranasal gelfoam impregnated with botulinum toxin type a (...

Chronic urticaria is a prolonged disease with unknown etiology and management.in order to determine the association of helicobacter pylori(H.pylori) infection with chronic urticaria,a case-control study was carried out in this regard 95 chronic urticaria patients without any underlying etiology and 190 healthy individuals who were matched for age and sex were evaluated by-anti-H.pylori IgG dete...

OBJECTIVE Rhinitis and asthma share an inflammatory mechanism, epidemiological patterns, and symptoms that affect both the nose and the bronchi. The RINAIR study examined the prevalence and characteristics of rhinitis in asthma patients in Spain. PATIENTS AND METHODS This prospective epidemiological study was carried out with the participation of 15% of Spanish respiratory medicine specialist...

Allergic rhinitis is a global health issue and its prevalence is increasing. Allergic rhinitis and asthma coexist in many patients. Allergic rhinitis is an Ig E mediated reaction. Prostaglandins and Leukotriens do not play a significant role in the pathogenesis of allergic rhinitis. Skin prick test and Enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) are useful as diagnostic tests. The three major mo...

BACKGROUND Allergic rhinitis and asthma are chronic inflammatory conditions of airways sharing common pathophysiology. The two disorders have similar cellular responses, with different symptoms based on the differences in the physical structures involved. Studies have shown that allergic rhinitis has a major impact on asthma morbidity and that treating allergic rhinitis may also impact asthma c...

BACKGROUND Few studies have evaluated the association between delivery by cesarean section (CS) and asthma, allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinitis and whether this association is different in children with and without a family history of asthma. This study aims to investigate whether children born by CS have a higher chance to develop asthma, allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinitis and to evalua...

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...

In this study, we aimed at studying the benefit of Urtica dioica root extract in the management of allergic rhinitis. In a randomized double blind clinical trial, 74 patients with the signs and symptoms of allergic rhinitis and a positive skin prick test were randomly divided into 2 groups. The study group was treated with routine allergic rhinitis treatment and Nettle root extract (Urtidin®, B...