Project Hospital, NMDC, Kirandul, India
Research
Use of Rhinitis Antihistamines Induces Hypersensitive Bronchitis
Author(s): Rajan Pradhan and Sachin Pradhan
Background: Antihistamine medicines are used in variety of allergic disorders including rhinitis of infectious as well as non-infectious origin. There lacks an extensive study suggesting the increased incidence of Bronchitis on exposure to antihistamine medication. From our experience we noticed increased incidence of Bronchitis in patients using anti allergic medication for rhinitis and this motivated us to undertake a retrospective study on the previous patients’ management data.
Method: We collected and documented the clinical data during last 10 years of approximately 7650 patients treated in our clinic out of which we took 3101 patients for study. Antihistamine medicines Cetrizine and Fexofenadin were used in 2009 patients and these antihistamine medicines were not received by 1092 patients, which were termed as control.
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