Symptoms of allergic rhinitis
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Typical symptoms and complaints of itching with paroxysmal sneezing, rhinorrhea and difficulty in nasal breathing are typical from about 3-4 years of age. However, allergic rhinitis can develop not only in infancy, but even in newborns. The main symptoms are the difficulty of nasal breathing as a result of mucous membrane swelling and, as a consequence, a violation of sucking. Allergic rhinitis is often accompanied by a slight nosebleed and coughing, an increase in regional cervical lymph nodes, the appearance of ecdysis in the area of the bovine folds, sweating, and pustular lesions. There are gastrointestinal disorders, flatulence and regurgitation, and sometimes unexplained temperature rises within 30-40 minutes.
In the older age the child's appearance becomes quite characteristic: the raised upper lip, the "gothic" hard palate, the wrong bite, the swollen nose due to the fact that the child often rubs his tip (allergic "salute"), dry lips. Appears puffiness of the face, dark circles under the eyes (allergic1 circles), the child constantly wrinkles his nose due to itching (allergic tic). For the general condition, excitement, irritability, touchiness, headaches are characteristic. At night the condition worsens, there is insomnia.
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