Allergic rhinitis is a facet of hay fever (diagnosis and treatment)

Hay fever, a classic allergic disease, is in fact an immediate allergic response. It is characterized by acute allergic inflammation of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract, eyes and skin. Less often it involves the digestive, cardiovascular, genitourinary and nervous systems. There is a distinctive relationship of annual exacerbation with flowering season of allergenic plants and exposure to pollen. The most common manifestation of hay fever is allergic rhinitis (95--98%) [1]

Correction of local immunity in ENT practice

Over the last decade, practicing ENT doctors are increasingly faced with atypically long-term inflammatory ENT diseases resistant to standard treatment protocols and associated with long recovery periods. The problem also includes sickly children (recurrent respiratory infections in children) and higher incidence of chronicity of inflammation in the paranasal sinuses, nasal cavity ("constantly runny nose") and throat (chronic tonsillitis, pharyngitis) in adults

Correction of pathological conditions of the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract with seawater medicines

ENT specialists are increasingly concerned about high incidence of the mucous membrane disorders in the upper respiratory tract. To paraphrase a well-known expression, it can be argued that there are no patients with completely healthy noses and sips, but there are patients who have not yet got tired of constant tickling in the throat, mucus discharge, nasal congestion and other symptoms

Therapeutic and prevention potential of seawater medicines

The mucous membrane of the nasal cavity is the opening part of the respiratory tract which has a number of functions among which protection is the most important. Once in the nasal cavity, the inhaled air is mechanically cleaned of dust pollutants, humidified and warmed. About 10 thousand litres of air pass through the nose during a day. The nasal mucosa also hinders penetration of pathogens (bacteria, fungi, viruses) into the lungs

Chemical composition of White Sea bottom sediments

Contents of major elements in surface layer bottom sediments of the White Sea were determined by the X-ray fluorescence method. Application of the statistical analysis (principal component method and cluster analysis) made it possible to divide the sediments into more or less homogeneous seven groups with different chemical and grain size compositions. In general, the groups corresponded to sediment lithotypes based on the classification elaborated at P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Contents of Si and Al are controlled by the ratio of sand-silt and pelite grain size fractions, while variations in content of Mn (and Fe in part) are governed by redistribution of elements in the course of redox processes of early diagenesis

The study of the efficacy and safety of Tonsilgon® N in the treatment of chronic pharyngitis

Chronic pharyngitis is one of the most common diseases in ENT practice. [1] Experts have not yet come to a consensus on how to treat chronic pharyngitis. The search for combination drugs which are effective in the treatment of chronic pharyngitis is determined, first, by an attempt to prevent polypharmacy and complications caused by treatment, and, second, by the problem of antibiotic resistance. The role of medications with combined action, including the immunomodulating effect, cannot be overestimated. One of the most commonly used drugs today is Tonsilgon® N (Bionorica SE, Germany). [2