Treatment of allergic rhinitis

Treatment of allergic rhinitis, internationally accepted methods are mainly the following four.

First, the patient education. Is to enable patients to understand allergic rhinitis, know how to regulate the treatment, this is the first big key to control of the disease, there are many hospitals in patient education vigorously, which can effectively improve the quality of life of patients.

Second, to avoid the allergen. If a food allergy is generally relatively easy to identify, allergy symptoms are obvious, but the onset of symptoms vexation weight, and may even be life-threatening. Such as peanut allergies, eating a peanut to anaphylactic shock and even death, in the future we should avoid eating such foods. If you are allergic airway, such as an allergy to pollen, then the annual spring and fall pollen season, there may be able to do so from the environment, such as life moved south from the north, allergy symptoms will disappear; if not completely out of the living environment can be taken out wearing masks, as little as possible to the suburbs, shutting doors and windows, timely cleaning the nasal cavity and other means to minimize contact with allergens. Mites are also a common allergen, and it is difficult to completely avoid, regardless of the "escape" to the south or the north are difficult to stop, only through the use of anti-mite mattress, air filters, mites, pesticide, wash with warm water bed supplies, regular exposure bedding, plush toys, frozen, thoroughly clean the carpet, to reduce dust mites and other methods to reduce.

Third, drug therapy. Since it is impossible to completely avoid allergens, so it requires some medication. Common drugs are antihistamines, nasal steroid, a leukotriene receptor antagonist, the effect better, faster effective, but can only control the symptoms, withdrawal symptoms occur once again, so it is not changing disease an effective way process.

Four, immunotherapy. Is commonly known as "desensitization therapy" is an important means of treatment of allergic rhinitis. It can correct the imbalance of the immune status has been unbalanced immune system to help restore balance. About immunotherapy awareness and specifications, we have experienced a series of procedures. In 1998, the World Health Organization raised immunotherapy indications that apply to medical therapy or medication is not tolerated, ineffective patients. In 2001, our concept one step further, allergic rhinitis Guide (ARIA guidelines) is a very authoritative international programmatic document on the relationship between allergic rhinitis and asthma, and it recommended that immunotherapy is best used early in the disease, in order to reduce the incidence of side effects, and prevention of further development of serious diseases (such as asthma). In 2006, the concept of immunotherapy is changed again, the medical community began to think that immunotherapy is a change in the development process due to disease treatment, use as soon as possible to avoid further irreversible lesions. For example, the patient has asthma, but because treatment is not standardized, not timely, resulting in certain organs irreversible change, and then select immunotherapy too late.

Immunotherapy can control allergy symptoms, patients do not need to use drugs for treatment, can greatly improve the quality of life; you can also prevent the occurrence of new allergens; to prevent the development of allergic rhinitis and asthma. Therefore, immunotherapy has become an increasingly important means of treating allergic rhinitis. Need to be reminded, immunotherapy also has some limitations, especially in patients with severe asthma, systemic disease of people over the age of 70, the age is too small children, do not apply to this method.