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Filter by:To evaluate the efficacy of an extract of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus versus placebo in the treatment of local allergic rhinitis. The primary efficacy endpoint is the reduction in symptom scores and medication use in the active group compared to placebo. The influence of treatment in "in vitro" and "in vivo" objective parameters was also assessed.
The study will compare the safety and efficacy of a generic mometasone nasal spray to the reference listed drugs in the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis. Additionally both the test and the reference formulations will be tested for superiority against a placebo nasal spray.
The investigators propose the development of a range of nasal spray challenge models to study the way the nose can respond to different types of nasal challenge that elicit different forms of inflammation. The investigators will carry out nasal challenge with bacterial and viral components and allergens. In this way the nasal upper respiratory tract mucosa is challenged with stimuli of the immune system, causing various types of inflammation. Samples will be taken by blotting the nostril surface and by scraping off tiny surface samples. The nose will be sprayed with a substance that is a single part of a bacteria or virus, or with an allergen. The material delivered by nasal spray is of high purity and is sterile, containing no live bacteria or viruses. The nasal spray substance contains molecular patterns that are recognised as foreign by the immune system, and at the right dose should stimulate the immune system, causing mild nasal inflammation. The study employs noninvasive methods of sampling using absorptive strips. These strips look and feel like tissue paper, and are applied to each nostril for a period of 1 min. A few pinhead-sized tissue samples are taken from inside the nose, using a small disposable sterile plastic probe that has a tiny scoop on its end. In the nasal lining fluid and tissue samples, measurement will taken of a range of molecules and cells that protect against infections and help the immune response. By spraying the nose with a challenge agent in this manner, the nasal immune response can be assessed, which can help us better understand how the human immune system cells and molecules respond to bacteria and viruses. In the future, this may allow the testing of new drugs and vaccines, by seeing if they decrease or stop the inflammation after the nasal challenge.
The aim of this study is to test and compare the effectiveness between three groups - Cure-Allergic Rhinitis Syrup (CS), Yuk ping fung San (YS) and placebo groups - of adolescents (nursing students) with Allergic Rhinitis (AR) in improving their symptoms of AR, body constitution pattern and health-related quality of life. • The hypothesis are to test the effectiveness of the CS treatment on these students' AR symptoms and quality of life at immediately, one month and two months after completion of the 4-week intervention, when compared with the YS treatment and placebo group. 1. Cure-Allergic Rhinitis Syrup (CS) group will show significantly reduction of AR symptoms over the 2-month follow-up, when compared to those in YS and placebo groups. 2. CS group will indicate a healthier body constitution pattern over the follow-up, when compared to those with YS and placebo group. 3. CS group will indicate significantly greater improvement of their quality of life over 2-month follow-up, when compared to those with YS and placebo group.
This is a post-marketing surveillance study on a marketed cetrizine hydrochloride formulation.
Allergic diseases represent a major health issue worldwide and epidemiological studies in Melbourne, Australia, have reported a high prevalence of rhinitis (hayfever) and atopy (genetic tendency to make allergy antibody) in Asian and Caucasian subjects. Mainstay treatment of allergic rhinitis is allergen avoidance and pharmacotherapy for symptom relief. Allergen immunotherapy offers the advantages of specific treatment with long lasting efficacy, and can modify the course of disease. However, use of this treatment is restricted by the high risk of adverse events especially in asthmatics. Other, better tolerated, routes of allergen administration than the current conventional subcutaneous route (SCIT) have been investigated including the sublingual route (SLIT) and recently sublingual tablets for pollen allergy immunotherapy became available. The tablets are safe and easy to use and contain pollen extracts from 5 of the most common allergy-causing European grasses but include ryegrass (Lolium perenne), the major seasonal pollen for allergy in Melbourne and south-eastern Australia. The immunological mechanisms of sublingual immunotherapy are not fully understood. The investigators propose conducting a longitudinal open label study to investigate the immunological changes that occur with the 5 grass pollen sublingual immunotherapy tablet (Oralair®) in a cohort of Chinese and non-Chinese background subjects. The investigators will investigate the induction of relevant T cell regulatory immune mechanisms and changes in serum allergen-specific immunoglobulin (Ig) E and IgG4. Immunoregulatory cytokine synthesis and T cell phenotype (Bio-plex and flow cytometry) will be examined. This project will provide important fundamental knowledge on which to inform decisions for the greater application of this treatment for subjects with moderate and severe allergic rhinitis.
About 45 million people in Europe have allergic rhinitis (hay fever) - inflammation of the nasal passages causing sneezing, runny nose, nasal congestion, itching and tearing of the eyes. In the United Kingdom (UK), seasonal hay fever due to grass pollen allergy accounts for approximately 7 times more doctors' appointments than asthma. The standard treatment for hay fever consists of treating the symptoms with a nasal spray and an antihistamine. However, in a survey taken in a UK general practice less than 40% of patients with hay fever reported good symptom control with this standard treatment. For those patients with hay fever whose symptoms are not well controlled by treatment with antihistamines and nasal sprays, subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) - (monthly injections of a grass allergen extract for a period of 3-5 years) is an effective alternative, and is approved in the UK on a named patient basis. More recently, allergen immunotherapy tablets (AITs) have been developed, including grass pollen allergen tablets. These have been shown to be highly effective in the treatment of hay fever, with the additional benefit of being convenient for patients, given that they may be taken at home. Grazax® (manufactured by Allergologisk Laboratorium København (ALK)-Abello, Denmark) has UK and European Union (EU) license for use in the treatment of troublesome grass pollen induced hay fever. The aim of this research is to investigate the effects of the AIT treatment on the immune system over time - which changes are taking place and when in the course of treatment. This will provide insight into the complexities of the development of allergen-specific immune tolerance - how harmful allergic responses against innocuous substances such as grass pollen can be overridden.
Observation study of patients with chronic rhinitis or chronic urticaria in Thailand
Product information: Purotex is a textile treatment that uses five 100% natural bacteria or probiotics, selected for their ability to clean up house dust mite allergen along with other allergen types. Study design: - Placebo-controlled: the effect of the Purotex impregnated mattress and pillow covers will be compared to untreated, classical bedding covers (placebo). - Cross-over design: There will be 2 'treatment' arms. One arm (Arm 1) in which the subjects will first use the Purotex impregnated covers (Set A=Purotex) during 2 months (=period A) and, after a wash out period of 1 month, the untreated covers (set B=placebo) during 2 months (=period B). In the second arm (Arm 2), the subjects will first use the untreated set (set A=placebo) and, after a wash out period the Purotex impregnated covers (set B=Purotex). - Randomized: The subjects will be randomly assigned to one of the 2 treatment arms. - Double blind: both the subjects and the investigators will not know to which treatment arm the subjects are assigned. Study hypothesis: We want to investigate: - if there is a reduced concentration of HDM allergen in Purotex covers compared to untreated covers in real life - if patients with allergic rhinitis to house dust mite use the Purotex covers, they experience an improvement of their quality of life and sleep, and an improvement of their allergic symptoms and global discomfort
Chronic rhinosinusitis, a common diagnosis in children, remains a poorly understood disease. Adenoidectomy (surgery to take out the adenoid pads- infection fighting glands in the back of the throat) is performed since the adenoid pad may trap germs that enter a child's body and can get so swollen with bacteria that they become infected themselves. Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) and adenoidectomy are currently the most common surgeries performed on children with this disease. Another treatment is adenoidectomy and irrigation of the maxillary sinus without FESS. New technology has emerged using a balloon catheter to dilate (open) the sinus passage in addition to the adenoidectomy and irrigation. This study seeks to answer if children with chronic rhinosinusitis who undergo adenoidectomy with balloon dilation of the maxillary sinus passage and irrigation experience improved quality of life outcomes compared to children with chronic rhinosinusitis who undergo an adenoidectomy with maxillary sinus irrigation without dilation of the sinus passage.