Intranasal Mometasone Furoate for Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. CMT.S4767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Berlucchi ◽  
Barbara Pedruzzi

Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a chronic nasal disease that affects the upper respiratory tract. This disorder is characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes and it manifests with several nasal symptoms accompanied sometimes by non-nasal symptoms. Best therapy aims to prevent and improve the AR-clinical picture. Steroids have an important role in the treatment of AR. The development of steroids administrated directly on nasal mucosa has much reduced the systemic adverse affects associated with oral steroids therapy. Mometasone furoate aqueous nasal spray is a synthetic steroid assessed for intranasal use in the therapy of adults and children affected by AR. Such topical nasal steroid is an effective molecule improving clinical picture of AR and it is also approved as prophylactic therapy. In this article, apart from a careful description of its successful clinical use the authors review pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic profile, mechanism of action, safety, and efficacy of such steroid molecule.

2018 ◽  
Vol 132 (9) ◽  
pp. 812-815
Author(s):  
A C Walker ◽  
P Surda ◽  
M Rossiter ◽  
S A Little

AbstractObjectivesNasal disease imposes a significant disease burden upon the individual in the general population, but is relatively under studied in athletes. This study sought to define the frequency of nasal symptoms in the active population, and to quantify the impact of these symptoms on quality of life and on the frequency of upper respiratory tract infections.ResultsA total of 296 participants completed the study (246 athletes and 50 sedentary controls). Nasal symptoms were significantly more frequent in the active group than in the sedentary controls (70 per cent vs 52 per cent). Upper respiratory tract infections were significantly more common in athletes with regular nasal symptoms than in athletes without nasal symptoms. Quality-of-life scores, as measured by the 22-item Sino-Nasal Outcome Test, were significantly worse in athletes with regular nasal symptoms.ConclusionThis study suggests that regular exercise is associated with a significant increase in the prevalence of troubling nasal symptoms, and nasal symptoms in athletes are associated with increased susceptibility to upper respiratory tract infections. Quality of life was negatively affected, confirming the importance of nasal health to athlete welfare.


Author(s):  
Pratama Novan Y. I. ◽  
Avianto Primadi ◽  
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AbstractBackgroundInappropriate antibiotic therapy is accelerating the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) are predominantly caused by viruses, resulting in the prescription of antibiotics to a few selected patients. Previous studies in primary health care centers (PHCCs) in Indonesia have shown a high percentage of antibiotic therapy for URTIs. This study tries to analyze the difference in profiles of antibiotic prescription in the treatment of children and adults with URTI in Bangka Tengah, Indonesia.MethodsRandom prescriptions from patients diagnosed with URTIs (sinusitis, bronchitis, common cold, and pharyngitis) from all PHCCs in Bangka Tengah were collected from January to February 2018. Prescriptions from patients with overlapping diagnoses, such as URTI with diarrhea or typhoid, were excluded.ResultsDuring the two months of data collection, 1348 prescriptions for adults and children with URTIs were studied. Children were 1.30 (95% CI, 1.03–1.58) times more likely to be treated with antibiotics compared to adults. Amoxicillin was the most commonly prescribed antibiotic both in children (92.3%) and adults (78.6%). Ciprofloxacin was commonly prescribed in adults (14.6%) but not in children (0.3%).ConclusionsThis study confirms the major antibiotic overuse in patients with URTI, especially in children. Owing to the fact that children are more likely to get URTI of viral origin, they receive high percentage of antibiotic therapy. These findings support the need for collaborated intervention to decrease unnecessary prescription of antibiotics in Bangka Tengah.


2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nona-Aura Florincescu-Gheorghe ◽  
Florica Popescu ◽  
D.O. Alexandru

Abstract Introduction: Allergic rhinitis is one of the most common allergic diseases, characterized by the inflammation of the nasal mucosa. Eosinophils play a predominant pro-inflammatory role in allergic inflammation. This study assesses the effect of mometasone furoate alone or in combination with desloratadine/montelukast in patients with moderate-severe allergic rhinitis. Material and method: This is a prospective study that took place over 8 weeks on 70 patients diagnosed with moderate-severe allergic rhinitis with sensitization to the pollen of Ambrosia elatior. The patients were evaluated on the basis of their symptoms using the total score of nasal symptoms, the score of individual nasal symptoms and the number of eosinophils in the nasal secretion. Results: All 3 groups of patients had an improvement on the total nasal symptoms score. However, the combination of mometasone furoate with desloratadine provided statistically significant benefits on the total score of symptoms and on nasal itching as compared with mometasone furoate alone. Conclusions: The association of mometasone furoate with desloratadine should be considered first-line treatment of moderate-severe allergic rhinitis due to the benefit both on the total symptom score and on of nasal itching.


Author(s):  
Валерий Войцеховский ◽  
Valeriy Voytsekhovskiy ◽  
Марина Погребная ◽  
Marina Pogrebnaya ◽  
Николай Гоборов ◽  
...  

A brief review of the literature is devoted to the peculiarities of the clinical picture, diagnosis and treatment of Wegener's granulomatosis. The clinical observation of the patient with Wegener's granulomatosis is made from the personal practice of the authors. A complex differential diagnosis was made between pneumonia of different etiology, tuberculosis, lung cancer and granulomatous disease. Taking into account anamnesis and clinical picture of the disease (acute onset with fever, arthralgia, nasal and oral mucosa damage, lungs, kidneys, Raynaud's syndrome, hemorrhagic eruptions, digital vasculitis), histological examination of transbronchial lung tissue biopsy material diagnosed: Wegener's granulomatosis, a generalized form, with the lesions of the upper respiratory tract, tracheobronchial tree, lungs, heart, kidneys, an acute course. Despite adequate treatment, the disease progressed with the addition of various complications, and a lethal outcome was ascertained.


Author(s):  
Олексій Кузнєцов

Introduction. Seasonal allergic rhinitis is AZ of mucous membranes (primarily the conjunctiva of the eye and nasal mucosa), due to hypersensitivity to aerosol allergens of plant pollen and fungi spores, the concentration of which in the air periodically becomes prijenosnog. The leading clinical manifestation of SAR is considered as allergic conjunctivitis. According to statistics, about 70-90% of patients with SAR develops Pulawy conjunctivitis, characterized by itching of eyes, eyelids, their redness, photophobia, lacrimation. Clinically important is the combination of SAR and conjunctivitis. Although the SAR attention usually emphasize on nasal symptoms, more than 80% of patients, as practice shows, suffer from symptoms from the eyes. According to the European and North American researchers, more than 70% of patients with SAR suffer from eye and nasal symptoms, and their severity the majority of patients assessed asmoderate or severe.Materials and methods. Clinical and anamnestic study was done in 120 patients aged from 19 to 45 years. All the studied patients were divided according to the degree of severity of the disease: 58 patients with moderate course of seasonal allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis (EYE), which caused Pilica ambrosia and 62 patients with severe SARK, which pilca caused by ragweed. Of these, 43 (35,8%) women, 77 (64.1%) of men aged 19 to 25 years – 76 (63.3 per cent), from 25 to 45 years – 44 (36.6%) patients. The control group consisted of 30 healthy people.Research results. The differentiation of the history of infectious diseases patients. In the studied patients SARK with moderate current, acute respiratory illness (ARI) was observed in 54 (26,9%) patients, varicella – 16 (8,0%), mumps – 12 (6,0%), measles in 11 (5,5%), viral hepatitis in 4 (1,9%) patients, acute bronchitis 36 (17,9%), pneumonia – 17 (8,5%), the scarlet fever in 6 (2.9%) and intestinal infection in 7 (3,5%), sore throat – 25 (12,4%), otitis in 13 (6,5%) patients. In patients with severe SARK, ARI was observed in 59 (23,3%) patients, varicella – 24 (9,5%), mumps – in 18 (7.1 percent), measles – in 16 (6.3 percent), viral hepatitis in 7 (2.8%) and acute bronchitis – in 43 (17%), pneumonia in 19 (7,5%), scarlet fever in 8 (3,2%), intestinal infection in 9 (3,6%), angina 32 (12,6%), otitis media – in 18 (7.1 per cent) patients.Analyzing the structure of infectious diseases in the anamnesis in the studied patients SARK need to emphasize that their structure is dominated infection in the upper respiratory tract and broncho-pulmonary system that leads to depletion of nonspecific and specific immunity factors, formation of secondary immunodeficiency in these systems.Discussion of research. In the study of biochemical parameters of blood in patients with SARK in the period of aggravation established that the greatest changes are observed from endogenous cholesterol and phospholipids, which may indicate the failure of the macrophage link of immunity. At the same time, β-lipoproteins and NIK was increased only in the group of patients with severe SARK. The increase of phospholipids in serum of patients with severe SARK can point to the implementation of late phase allergic inflammation in cellular tissue structure of the nasal mucosa.Conclusions. Conducted research of history data, the structure of comorbidity, laboratory parameters allergological studies have shown that SARK is formed on the background of progressive sensitization and allergization of the organism, which is implemented in the manifestation of allergic reactions, forming the severity of SARK, and on the strength of the immune response to a variety of ecoalign that define the types of immunopathological reactions in this cohort of patients.


2020 ◽  
pp. 014556132090848
Author(s):  
Alper Yenigun ◽  
Ahmet Elbay ◽  
Abdullah Ozdem ◽  
Havvanur Bayraktar ◽  
Omer Faruk Ozer ◽  
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Objective: Allergic rhinitis is a type 1 hypersensitivity reaction of immunoglobulin E in the rhino-ocular mucosa. This study was planned to demonstrate in patients with allergic rhinitis to evaluate changes in tear, nasal secretions, and blood osmolarity compared to healthy individuals. Method: Forty allergic rhinitis patients, 25 patients with acute upper respiratory tract infections, and 26 healthy participants were included in the study. Positive patients with allergic symptoms and skin prick test results were included in the allergic rhinitis group. Tear, nasal secretion, and blood osmolarity values were examined for the 3 groups. Result: In patients with allergic rhinitis, tear and nasal secretion osmolarity values were significantly higher in patients with acute upper respiratory tract infections and those of the healthy participants ( P = .001, P = .038). In blood osmolarity measurements, there was no statistical difference between the groups ( P = .489). In patients with allergic rhinitis, Schirmer test results were significantly shorter than patients who had acute upper respiratory tract infection and those of the healthy participants ( P = .001, P = .001). Patients with allergic rhinitis and acute upper respiratory tract infections had significantly shorter Schirmer test results than in healthy participants ( P = .001, P = .001). Conclusion: Tear osmolarity was increased in allergic rhinitis patients, and this was thought to lead to dry eye findings. In the presence of allergic rhinitis, nasal secretions were found more hyperosmolar than tears. Nasal secretion osmolarity was higher in allergic rhinitis patients than in patients with acute upper respiratory tract infections and control group.


1995 ◽  
Vol 113 (5) ◽  
pp. 968-972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willy Sarti ◽  
Lídia Alice Gomes-Monteiro ◽  
Claudia Saad Magalhães Machado

Forty-six asthmatic children with repeated respiratory infections presented symptoms of allergic rhinitis. All patients were treated locally for allergic rhinitis either with disodium cromoglycate or beclomethasone dipropionate. After six months of treatment, 95% of the children showed improvement of allergic rhinitis and 84% improvement of bronchial asthma, as well as fewer infections. We concluded that allergic rhinitis plays an important role in facilitating infections of the upper respiratory tract, and a possible association of rhinitis, viral infections and bronchial asthma is discussed.


2003 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 416-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Gawchik ◽  
Stanley Goldstein ◽  
Bruce Prenner ◽  
Ani John

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