Abstract
Although the incidence of chonic sinusitis appeares decreasing steadily in Japan, that of allergic nose or associated diseases seems increasing in recent years. Such tendency may pratly be attributed to an increasing pollution of air in urban areas.
The purpose of this study is to clarify the entity of allergic sinusitis through clinical, observations in 310 patients with nasal allergy.
Three different kinds of criteria were used for evaluation of this series. They were skin test, provocation test and subjective symptoms. All the patients were classified into three groups. according to the results of the above tests.
Type I represents those cases which showed positive results for the above three tests, theType II those cases revealed positive for skin test and subjective symptoms, and Type III those, cases where only subjective symptoms were present and negative for skin test and provocation test.
1. Past history and family history: Past history of allergic disease was found in many cases. studied. Bronchial asthma was seen in the highest rate. Family history revealed positive allergic tdisease in 36 to 41% of the cases.
