Abstract
China is one of the earliest countries to realize the allergy disease. More than 2000 years ago, there were recordes of nasal allergy and asthma in the Chinese traditional medical works. While in the recent period of China, it was a little later to undertake the clinic and reseach of nasal allergy. In 1939, the first allergy clinic was set up in the affiliated hospital of Peiking Union Medical College. From 1956, the reaseach of nasal allergy was begun. In 1964, the typical cases of pollinosis were reported in the first time and the artemisia pollen was affirmed to be the main allergenic pollen in China, esp. in north China. In 1970's-1980's, some prevlence survey of pollinosis was carried out in parts of north China in succession. From 1984 to 1989, a national survey of airborne and allergenic pollen was firstly fulfilled in China.
To explore the incidence of nasall allergy in mordon China, the author began a prevalence survey on nasal allergy in the students in Jiangsu Province from 1995. The first investigation suggested the positive rate of the scratch test and the prevalence rate of nasal allergy in China were lower than those in Japan. Whereas, because of the wide territory of China, the result of only one time and one region must not represent the overall distribution of the disease, we will select other investigating spot and make on-the-spot investigation in all over the country on a large scale.
