Whenever the seasons change, Xiao Yu’s allergic rhinitis will attack, sneezing and runny nose, looking at her daughter’s uncomfortable look, her mother is anxious and can’t do anything: Why does this rhinitis occur every year? Is there no way to cure it? The actual allergic rhinitis is actually a series of symptoms caused by allergic people who are exposed to allergens. Allergic body is related to genetics, the current level of medicine can not change the allergic body to non-allergic body, so it can only be solved by avoiding contact with allergens, and allergens are many types, and more hidden, not easy to be found, so it is difficult to avoid completely, which is also the reason why many patients are difficult to cure. However, as long as you adhere to the correct and regular medication and the necessary desensitization treatment, you can still better control the symptoms. 1, looking for allergens, the first step in treatment. Many patients feel that despite their repeated care in life, but allergens are still “unpreventable”, accidentally popping up, catching people off guard. For this, patients can go to the hospital for a skin test. The result of the skin test is an important reference for determining the allergen. 2, reasonable use of drugs to control symptoms. In addition to actively looking for allergens, symptoms should be controlled by medication. At present, the main drugs for seasonal allergic rhinitis are antihistamine (preferred drug) and nasal topical adrenocorticotropic hormone (first-line drug). Antihistamines are characterized by their faster action and are more effective in reducing nasal itching, runny symptoms and suppressing sneezing. However, they are almost ineffective for the more severe nasal congestion that plagues patients, so intranasal adrenocorticosteroid medications or decongestants are usually needed. Intranasal adrenal corticosteroid drugs are currently the first-line drugs in the clinical treatment of allergic rhinitis and are the trending drugs in the future, which can better relieve nasal symptoms such as nasal itching, sneezing, runny nose and nasal congestion. It is important to emphasize that no matter what drugs are used, including Western or Chinese medicine, they can only relieve the symptoms for a while, but cannot achieve a radical effect. Patients should be patient with medication and increase or decrease the dose or change the variety of medication according to the physician’s guidance. 3, immunotherapy, children should strive. Immunotherapy, also known as desensitization therapy, is the administration of incremental doses of drugs, so that patients are slowly exposed to allergens from less to more, so as to change the patient’s immune reactivity and reduce the clinical symptoms of the purpose. For children who are in a position to identify the allergen, desensitization therapy should be pursued. After effective desensitization, when the patient is re-exposed to the allergen, he or she may not develop the disease, or may develop the disease but the symptoms are greatly reduced. The effect of desensitization treatment is certain. In China, we have tried the rapid desensitization method to treat seasonal allergic rhinitis, and the effect can be maintained for 2-8 years, after which the symptoms may recur, but the desensitization treatment is still effective. A small number of patients can benefit for life after successful desensitization. Desensitization prevents the further development of rhinitis into asthma, which is difficult to achieve with general drug therapy. Therefore, desensitization should be pursued for allergic rhinitis in children. Common misconceptions should be distinguished The treatment of allergic rhinitis is not complicated to say the least, but many people have misconceptions about allergic rhinitis. Myth #1: It doesn’t matter if you treat it or not. In many people’s opinion, allergic rhinitis is just a bit painful when it strikes, and afterwards it remains the same as a healthy person, so it doesn’t matter if it is treated or not. In fact, if allergic rhinitis is not treated in time, it may lead to sinusitis and nasal polyps, and long-term improper treatment may also lead to otitis media, loss of sense of smell and even asthma. Myth 2: Allergic rhinitis as a cold. Some people in the spring and autumn itchy nose, sneezing, runny nose, nasal congestion and other symptoms, mistaken for the seasonal dressing, improper diet caused by the “stubborn cold” or “heat typhoid”, and afraid to go to the hospital to spend time and money, simply take their own cold medicine The result is a prolonged course of the disease, which can eventually be a continuous state of nasal congestion and runny nose throughout the year. Misconception 3: Abuse of decongestants. Some patients, because of long-term nasal congestion, simply apply local decongestant treatment, and the application is more arbitrary, the accumulation of up to 5 to 10 times a day. Because these drops usually have a strong vasodilatory rebound effect, is the most common cause of drug rhinitis, so the course of treatment should not exceed three days, the daily number of nose drops can not exceed three times. Myth #4: Stopping medication too soon. Many patients only use medication when they are sick, and stop taking medication once their symptoms are relieved, resulting in allergic rhinitis getting better and worse, or even getting worse. Medical experts suggest that for perennial allergic rhinitis, each attack should be treated continuously for l to 2 months, and some patients even need to be treated for half a year; while for seasonal allergic rhinitis, medication should be used 2 to 3 weeks in advance, and after the season, medication should not be stopped immediately, but continue to be used for about two weeks.