1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786004, Assam, India
2Department of Pharmacy, Tripura University (A Central University), Suryamaninagar-799022, Tripura (W), India
3Department of Pharmacy, Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences - 781017, Guwahati, Assam, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: abumd97@gmail.com
Online published on 4 May, 2021.
Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a major health concern and numerous guidelines have been developed to standardize and to improve the management of this disease. As in many other areas of medicine, the methodology of the AR guidelines has evolved from opinion-based to evidence-based medicine. Although evidence-based medicine has many benefits, it also has limitations and cannot cancel the value of the individual clinical expertise. At present, however, studies on the effectiveness of guidelines are few. The International Consensus on Rhinitis from 1994 is the only guideline for AR that has been assessed for its effects on health outcomes. Furthermore, there is a lack of valid and reliable instruments to assess physicians and patient's attitude towards and compliance with guideline recommendations. There is no single effective way to ensure the use of guidelines into practice, but the most important step of putting guidelines into practice occurs at the level of the patient. Patients should be considered as effective partners in health care. Education of the patient and efforts to change patient's behaviour can maximize compliance, increase satisfaction and optimize health outcomes.
The objective of this study is to provide brief insight about Allergic Rhinitis and various strategies for clinical management of the disease.
Extensive literature survey was carried out and information on various databases viz. PubMed, Google scholar, Scopus and Bibliographic review were retrieved for analysis.
The discussion and analysis revealed the possible therapeutic management against allergic rhinitis comprising of various non pharmacological and pharmacological methods.
Allergic rhinitis can be effectively self-managed on an outpatient basis by incorporating pharmacologic therapy and developing a long-term management plan. Pharmacist, nurse practitioners and physicians can educate patients on importance of attachment to the therapy also help patients with their management of allergic rhinitis will increase patient outcomes and serve a synergistic working relationship among health care providers which will act as a powerful tool that can offer a better health assistance.
Allergic rhinitis, Management, Synergistic, Pharmacologic therapy
