Fall and winter is the high incidence of rhinitis, which methods can help you easily get through?

It is the season of suffering again for rhinitis patients, with symptoms such as itchy nose, sneezing, runny nose and nasal congestion, which seriously degrade the quality of life. Rhinitis can also lead to complications such as asthma, sinusitis, conjunctivitis, and even be associated with other respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, gastroesophageal reflux, and sleep apnea syndrome, so proper diagnosis and treatment is especially critical. Many people mistakenly believe that people with low immunity are prone to allergic rhinitis, but on the contrary, young and middle-aged people with high immunity are more prone to the disease. Allergic rhinitis is a manifestation of an immune imbalance, not a decline in immunity. In layman’s terms, it means that these people are too immune, and they will overreact to allergens that people don’t react to, such as mites, pollen, mold, etc. They instinctively want to remove these allergens, and in the process of removing them their bodies can’t handle it, and subsequently develop allergic symptoms such as itchy nose, sneezing, nasal congestion, asthma, and itchy skin. Some studies have shown that the percentage of people with allergic diseases who develop malignant tumors is lower than that of the general population. For the treatment of allergic rhinitis, there are four main methods prevailing internationally as follows: i. Patient education. It is to let patients understand allergic rhinitis and know how to standardize the diagnosis and treatment, which is the first key to control the disease. Many hospitals are now vigorously carrying out patient education, which can effectively improve the quality of life of patients. Second, avoid allergens. If it is a food allergy, it is generally easier to identify, the allergy symptoms are more obvious, and the symptoms appear urgent and heavy, and may even be life-threatening. For example, people with peanut allergy, as soon as they eat peanuts, they experience anaphylactic shock and even death, so they should avoid eating such foods in the future. If it is an airway allergy, such as allergy to pollen, then every spring and autumn pollen season, if there are conditions, you can get out of this environment, such as moving from the north to live in the south, allergy symptoms will naturally disappear; if you can not completely get out of the living environment, you can take the means to wear a mask, go to the suburbs as little as possible, close the doors and windows, timely cleaning of the nasal cavity, etc., to minimize exposure to allergens. Mites are also a common allergen, and it is difficult to avoid them completely, no matter they “escape” to the south or north, they can only be reduced by using anti-mite mattresses, air filters, mite insecticides, washing bedding with warm water, regular exposure to the sun, freezing plush toys, thoroughly cleaning carpets, reducing dust and other methods. Third, drug treatment. Since it is impossible to completely avoid allergens, some medication is also needed. Common drugs are antihistamines, nasal hormones, leukotriene receptor antagonists, etc., which are more effective and quicker, but can only control the symptoms, and once the drug is stopped the symptoms will reappear, so it is not an effective way to change the course of the disease. Four, immunotherapy. It is often referred to as “desensitization therapy” and is one of the most important means of treating allergic rhinitis. It can correct the immune imbalance and help restore balance to an already imbalanced immune system. In 1998, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed indications for immunotherapy, i.e., for patients who have failed to respond to drug therapy or who are intolerant or ineffective. In 2006, the concept of immunotherapy changed again and the medical community began to consider immunotherapy as an allopathic treatment that modifies the course of the disease and should be used as early as possible to avoid further irreversible lesions. For example, patients have already developed asthma, but due to irregular and untimely treatment, irreversible changes in certain organs have occurred, and then it is too late to choose immunotherapy. Immunotherapy can control allergy symptoms, patients do not need to use drugs for treatment anymore, and the quality of life can be greatly improved; it can also prevent the occurrence of new allergen allergy; it can prevent allergic rhinitis from developing into asthma. Therefore, immunotherapy has become an increasingly important means of treating allergic rhinitis. It should be reminded that immunotherapy also has some limitations; patients with particularly severe asthma, people with systemic diseases, elderly people over 70 years old, and children too young for this method are not applicable. In addition to treating the symptoms of rhinitis associated with GERD, it is also important to treat the root cause. Treatment options for GERD include medication, laparoscopic surgery and endoscopic radiofrequency therapy.