Allergic Rhinitis: A Case Study

Otis, thanks for sharing the wonderful post. I completely agree with you that Allergic rhinitis should be one of the differential diagnosis. There is a growing evidence that allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis most often coexist with asthma (Jarvis, et al.,2012). In the United States Takamitsu et al (2017) recorded epidemiological surveys of patients with asthma that was conducted and they found out that 57% to 70% and 41% to 51% had comorbid allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis, respectively. They concluded that allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis are pathophysiologically associated with asthma (Takamitsu et al., 2017).
Reading further into the article, Takamitsu et al (2017) found out that in patients with asthma,