Clinical Pattern, Comorbidities And Complications Of Allergic Rhinitis For Adolescence At Mwanza City
Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Allergic rhinitis is one of the commonest condition that occurs in our local environment. This condition has become more prominent as can attend more than 6patients in each clinic that attend at the OPD. The reasons can lie more on the climatically changes due to heavy industrialization and the new innovation that leads to disturb of the ecosystem. This study will help us to know the burden of the condition in adolescence and what will be the leading clinical presentation together with the associated complications. This was community based descriptive cross-sectional study among students of selected secondary schools in Nyamagana district, Mwanza conducted from September 2024 to November, 2024.The findings will be analysed with SPSS version 21. Participants involved in the study were 385.Male were 56% and female 44%.Male were more by 1.3:1.The age group that was involved more 13yrs to 16yrs by 78% followed by 17yrs to 19yrs which was 22%.Majority of the participants presented with symptoms of AR which was about 76%.Among the participants the leading symptoms were nasal congestion followed by Sneezing then reduce sense of smell,running nose,pharyngeal itching,cough,nasal mucosal itching,tearing,itching of the eyes then lastly is earfullness.The complications that encountered mostly was sleep disturbance.Other diseases that are accompany this condition the leading was asthma then conjunctivitis,eczema then sinusitis. Allergic rhinitis is high among the participants aged from 13-19 years, with the leading symptoms been nasal congestion followed by sneezing this are commonly triggered by dust environment and cold weather. Asthma was the leading comorbities followed by allergic conjunctivitis
Author: Olivia Michael Kimario
Institution: Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences
Language: English
Subfield: Immunology and Allergy
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410502803