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Allergic rhinitis: symptoms

Alexey Portnov, medical expert
Last reviewed: 19.10.2021

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For an adequate assessment of the severity of the process, the correct choice of the method of treatment and the precise prosthetics of the course of the disease, the study of complaints and anamnesis is of great importance. It is necessary to accurately determine the form (intermittent or persistent) of allergic rhinitis for each patient. The main complaints of patients: discharge from the nose, nasal congestion and sneezing attacks. DDL diagnosis requires the presence of two or more symptoms lasting at least 1 hour a day for a long time.

Depending on the prevalence of these or other symptoms of allergic rhinitis, there are 2 variants of the clinical course of the disease: the so-called exsessive and obstructive.

Features of clinical manifestations of obstructive and obstructive allergic rhinitis

Symptom of diseases	Exudative rhinitis	Obstructive rhinitis
Sneezing	Often, attacks	Slightly or absent
Discharge from the nose	Watery	Thick
Itching in the nose	Often	Absent
Nasal congestion	Not constant	Constant and strongly pronounced
Conjunctivitis	Often	Absent
Cytochrome dynamics of manifestations	Afternoon deterioration, at night - improvement	Usually tethenie uniform, possibly worse at night

Allergic inflammation is not limited to the mucosa of the nasal cavity. Quite often in patients with allergic rhinitis, there are foci of chronic infection and other diseases of the upper respiratory tract (sinusitis, polyposis of the nasal cavity in combination with polyposis sinusitis and, as a rule, maxilloemitis, otitis media).

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