Nonallergic Chronic Rhinitis Syndromes

Abstract

In the past decade major advances have occurred in the clinical approaches to diagnosis and management of chronic nonallergic rhinitis. It is now clear that nonallergic forms of rhinitis are as common as allergic rhinitis. These forms can be clinically subcategorized for better therapeutic and prognostic purposes. Greater knowledge has been forthcoming concerning therapeutic agents used to treat other medical entities that may have secondary or side effects that directly impact on nasal disease. Old therapeutic agents have been improved and refined to make them more effective, longer acting, and with less toxic side effects. New agents that show significant promise for the more difficult-to-treat nasal diseases are on the horizon. The next 10 years should attract the basic scientist into the arena as these diseases come more and more under the scrutiny of the physicians best equipped to deal with them.