تقييم فعالية مضادات اللوكوتريين في علاج التهاب الانف التحسسي

Allergic rhinitis is considered as a global health problem. It causes major problems. Its economic impact is substantial. It is still under-diagnosed and undertreated. Over 600 million patients suffer from this disease. We assessed 100 patients with allergic rhinitis,50 treated by oral anti-leukotrienes with nasal steroid spray and 50 treated by oral anti-histamine with nasal steroid spray for one month. We found that the average of improvement with anti-leukotrienes was 23 % while the average of improvement with anti-histamine was 38 %. Then we chose patients who suffer asthma and nasal polyps accompanied by allergic rhinitis and found out that their improvement with anti- leukotrienes was 83.3 and 76.9 successively.