Background: Rhinitis is a prevalent chronic inflammatory disease of the nasal mucosa. Arachidonic acid-derived lipoxin A4 (LXA4) has long been recognized to exert crucial anti-inflammatory and pro-resolving effects on inflammatory responses through a specific receptor named formyl peptide receptor-2 (FPR2). This study aimed to determine the serum level of LXA4 as well as the relative mRNA expre...

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 In the Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) classification, intermittent and persistent rhinitis were proposed to replace seasonal and perennial allergic rhinitis (AR). AIM To better understand the ARIA classification of rhinitis. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out in 591 patients consulting ENT or allergy specialists for AR and 502 control subjects. The...

Introduction: Otitis media with effusion (OME) is prevalent among children in such a way that it is the most common cause of hearing loss and surgery in childhood. Immunoglobulin E (IgE) mediated hypersensitivity has been proposed as a causative factor in the development of OME; however, there has been contrasting data in this regard. Therefore, the present study aimed to detect the possi...

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...

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 on...

Dear Editor;
 We read with interest the article titled “Use of methacoline challenge test to detect bronchial hyperresponsiveness in children persistent rhinitis” published Cukurova Medical Journal by Guc et al. [1]. 
 This study showed that BHR positivity is high allergic rhinitis. Allergic rhinitis can cause false positive BHR. In addition, smoking and COPD positives [2, 3]. occur c...