If your baby has frequent nasal congestion, runny nose, and sneezing, it is likely to be allergic rhinitis. Allergic rhinitis can be preliminarily diagnosed based on symptoms when the child has two or more local symptoms such as nasal congestion, runny nose, nasal itching, and paroxysmal sneezing, and the daily symptoms persist or accumulate for more than 1 hour.
Sometimes it is not only allergic rhinitis, but also easy to be combined with other diseases, and if other symptoms are present, allergic rhinitis is easy to be ignored. If you don't have allergic rhinitis at the same time, often these diseases are also less susceptible. The following are several common conditions that are easily co-existing with allergic rhinitis:
1.Asthma
Allergic rhinitis is one of the risk factors for asthma, and there is a saying that "the same airway, the same disease". About 35% of children with allergic rhinitis in China have asthma. Effective diagnosis and treatment of allergic rhinitis has a positive impact on the clinical control of asthma.
2.Allergic conjunctivitis
Allergic conjunctivitis is characterized by itching, burning, and increased discharge from the eyes, and in severe cases, swelling of the eyelids. Allergic conjunctivitis occurs in 30% and 71% of children with allergic rhinitis.
3.Chronic sinusitis.
Allergic rhinitis in children is often combined with chronic sinusitis,**allergic rhinitis also contributes to sinusitis**.
4.Upper airway cough syndrome.
It is mainly due to increased nasal secretions and reflux to the pharynx, which directly or indirectly stimulates cough receptors and causes cough, which is one of the common chronic coughs in children. Attention should be paid to controlling nasal symptoms, and at the same time, allergic rhinitis, sinusitis, cough is easy to relieve.
5.Atopic dermatitis
Like allergic rhinitis, it is related to allergic constitution, and it is necessary to avoid predisposing factors, anti-allergic drugs**.
6.Adenoidal hypertrophy
Adenoidal hypertrophy and allergic rhinitis in children can present with symptoms such as nasal congestion and runny nose, and there is a certain correlation between the two. 12.4%～21.Adenoidal hypertrophy occurs in 2% of children with allergic rhinitis. Adenoidal hypertrophy can worsen the severity and duration of symptoms in children with AR. If conservative**, adenoid hypertrophy is the same as allergic rhinitis medication, which is anti-allergic drugs and inhaled sex hormones.
7.Secretory otitis media
The incidence of secretory otitis media in children with allergic rhinitis was 803%~93.0%。When secretory otitis media appears, it is also necessary to have allergic rhinitis at the same time.
8.Sleep-disordered breathing
Allergic rhinitis is associated with sleep-disordered breathing. **Allergic rhinitis can effectively improve children's sleep quality and reduce daytime sleepiness.