Allergic rhinitis: diagnosis with the treatment

Allergic rhinitis: diagnosis with the treatment

Which are the infallible signs which make it possible to recognize an allergic rhinitis? On what does base itself one to define a severe allergic rhinitis?

Cold or allergic rhinitis?

Itchings, noses which run, stopped nose, eyes which prick and sneezes are the typical symptoms of the rhinitis. If they are persistent (several weeks of sharp) and that they appear apart from a cold, it is certainly about an allergic rhinitis, all the more if the signs are repeated each year at the same time.
Attention, at the beginning of year, it is appropriate to differentiate the viral infections from the allergic demonstrations. Indeed, pollens of cypress circulate in January – February, while those of the birch appear in March – April, two periods also at the viral risk. In addition, these two types of pollens cypress and birch belong to the more allergisants and are generally accompanied by severe symptoms.

To detect the allergic rhinitis in the child

In the child of more than 5 years, coughing fits around two hours of the morning and during the effort associated with the rhinitis evoke an associated spasmodic cough (minor form of asthma). Before the 5 years age, the allergic diagnosis of rhinitis is more difficult to pose, but one more and more often observes allergic rhinitides in the small child.

Should an allergic rhinitis or not be treated?

What is certain, it is that its doctor should be consulted! Why? Because the allergic rhinitis can evolve/move and to couple itself with an asthma.
Then, the decision to treat rests over the duration of the symptoms and their repercussions in the daily life. But it is especially the repercussion of the disease in the life of the every day which has the most importance because this criterion more finely makes it possible to establish the severity of the affection. Whereas a stopped nose can seem very benign and subjective, such symptoms can however have a heavy impact on the community activities, the physical-activities, the sleep, etc

The doctors use a classification of WHO (the World Health Organization)

light allergic rhinitis: normal sleep, activities in the course of the day normals, community activities and school normal, not of awkward symptoms.

Rhinitis allergic moderate to severe: disturbed sleep, diurnal activities disturbed, disturbed community activities and school, presence of awkward symptoms.

Intermittent symptoms: less than 4 days per week or during less than 4 weeks.

Persistent symptoms: more than 4 days per week or more than 4 weeks.

Treatment of the allergic rhinitis

There exist drugs to emerge the nose or conversely to stop the too abundant flow. In the event of light and intermittent rhinitis, one resorts to oral antihistamines or by nasal way. If the rhinitis is severe, one turns to corticoids.
And finally, if these treatments are not effective or if the patient wishes it, it is advisable to direct it towards an allergist, which will seek the allergens in question and will propose possibly a desensitizing.