Non-allergic rhinitis in children: Epidemiological aspects, pathological features, diagnostic methodology and clinical management

Chronic rhinitis is a very common disease, as the prevalence in the general population resulted to be 40%. Allergic rhinitis has been considered to be the most frequent form of chronic rhinitis, as non-allergic rhinitis has been estimated to account for 25%. However, several evidences suggested that non-allergic rhinitis have been underrated, especially in children. In pediatrics, the diagnostic definition of non-allergic rhinitis has been often limited to the exclusion of an allergic sensitization. Actually, local allergic rhinitis has been often misdiagnosed as well as mixed rhinitis has not been recognized in most cases. Nasal cytology is a diagnostic procedure being suitable for routine clinical practice with children and could be a very useful tool to characterize and diagnose non-allergic rhinitis, providing important clues for epidemiological analysis and clinical management.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  World Journal of Methodology

• Publication date

  2016-12-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.5662/wjm.v6.i4.200PMID 28074172PMCID 5183989
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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• Nasal cytology is presented as suitable for routine clinical practice with children and as a useful tool for characterizing and diagnosing non-allergic rhinitis.

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• In pediatrics, non-allergic rhinitis is often defined only by excluding allergic sensitization, which can miss local allergic rhinitis and leave mixed rhinitis unrecognized.

  Confidence 0.95

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• Non-allergic rhinitis is described as being underestimated in children.

  Confidence 0.96

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• allergic sensitization

  diagnostic criterion

  Evidence of allergic immune sensitization that is used as an exclusion criterion in the pediatric definition discussed here.

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• children

  population

  The pediatric patient population emphasized in the discussion of rhinitis diagnosis and evaluation.

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• local allergic rhinitis

  condition

  A rhinitis phenotype in which allergic features are localized and may not be recognized by routine exclusion-based definitions.

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• mixed rhinitis

  condition

  A rhinitis phenotype involving features of more than one rhinitis type, considered in the pediatric diagnostic discussion.

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• nasal cytology

  diagnostic method

  A diagnostic procedure that examines nasal cellular सामग्री to support clinical evaluation of rhinitis.

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• non-allergic rhinitis

  condition

  A form of chronic rhinitis discussed in relation to pediatric diagnosis, epidemiology, and clinical management.

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