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Rhinitis
Condition / disease reference page from the Everyone Healthy database.
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Condition overview
Attributes
Commonalityis common
Linked signs and symptoms
10Each sign/symptom opens its own page and links back to related conditions.
Linked drugs / medications
3Medication information is educational only. A doctor or pharmacist should advise whether any medicine is appropriate.
Treatments, therapies and supportive options
24Grouped by treatment type. These are educational database links, not personal treatment recommendations. Evidence labels are shown only where stored in the EH database.
Medical therapy
3Lifestyle changes
1Behavioural changes
3Alternative and complementary therapies
10- Acupuncture
- Bayberry (Myrica Cerifera)
- Curcuma longa
- Eyebright (Eyphrasia Officinalis)
- Nettle (Urtica Dioica)
- Peppermint OilNo Recommendation(Very Low Evidence)
- Salt Water Sprays
- Soaking in Salt Water
- Tanacetum Parthenium (Feverfew)
- Thuja (Eastern White Cedar, Thuja Occidentalis)No Recommendation(Very Low Evidence)
Alternative medicine
3Other supportive options
1Linked diagnostic tests and investigations
1These are pulled from both EH diagnostic-test link tables, including the older large test-link table.
Biological and test markers
1This visual map uses existing EH database links to show biological agents and lab markers reported as increased, decreased, or associated with this condition. These are educational relationships only; test results must be interpreted by a qualified clinician because ranges vary by lab, method, age, sex and clinical context.
Often increased
1Often decreased
0No markers in this group.
Other associated markers
0No markers in this group.
Introduction / full article
Rhinitis
Efficacy of Alternative and Other Treatments According to GRADE* Ranking:
Thuja (Eastern White Cedar, Thuja Occidentalis) [1, 8, 9, 10]:
Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It may mildly help with some of the symptoms, and even then has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present. Little is known about the full effects of Thuja, so it is not recommended for medicinal use. Thuja can be poisonous if ingested in large amounts.
Recommendation: no recommendation (There is insufficient evidence to support claims that Thuja helps to treat rhinitis)
Grade of Evidence: very low quality of evidence
Peppermint Oil [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]:
Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It may mildly help with some of the symptoms, and even then has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present.
Recommendation: no recommendation (There is insufficient evidence to support claims that peppermint helps to treat rhinitis)
Grade of Evidence: very low quality of evidence
* www.gradeworkinggroup.org
Summary References
Treatments:
1. Ades T, Alteri R, Gansler T, Yeargin P, "Complete Guide to Complimentary & Alternative Cancer Therapies", American Cancer Society, Atlanta USA, 2009
2. http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/peppermint
3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17420159
4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19507027
5. http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/alternat/AT022.html
6. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-peppermint.html
7. http://nccam.nih.gov/health/peppermintoil/index.htm
8. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002769.htm
9. http://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/cs_thoc2.pdf
10. http://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?v%3Aproject=medlineplus&query=thuja&x=0&y=0