Allergic rhinitis and a cold both sneeze and runny nose, how to tell the difference?

Allergic rhinitis is usually a succession of several sneezes and a runny nose all the time, and the nose can be very itchy.

Cold is a process that can be healed by itself, if the above symptoms are more severe, oral cold medicine can be significantly improved, but allergic rhinitis caused by nasal congestion, sneezing can be improved by anti-allergic drugs**, but once the drug is stopped, or when exposed to allergens, the symptoms will recur, and in severe cases, it will lead to loss of smell.

From the perspective of nasal itching, when you have a cold, the nose is not very itchy, and it is generally a long-term nasal congestion, not a nasal itch, and when rhinitis, most people will have a nasal itch.

Allergic rhinitis is a disease that only produces symptoms of runny nose, but colds can also cause symptoms such as headaches and coughs.

Colds can generally be cured in a week or two weeks, and allergic rhinitis has a long course and even perennial attacks.

One is inflammation in the nasal cavity, and the other is an infection in the upper respiratory tract, and the difference between the two is very big.

The systemic symptoms of allergic rhinitis are not obvious, but the systemic symptoms of cold patients can be manifested as body aches and low-grade fever.

Runny nose, sneezing, is it a cold or allergic rhinitis?

One makes an upper respiratory infection, the other is a nasal infection, guess what's the difference between them?

It's not that difficult to tell if you have a cold or an allergy. To put it simply, the timing of the onset of symptoms in allergy patients will be temporal and environmental, the so-called temporal is that the symptoms will only appear when the temperature is low in the morning and evening, or at the turn of the seasons; The environment refers to the environment of allergens, perhaps there are allergens in the air-conditioned room, or the air in the environment is polluted, which will induce allergies.

Itchy nose and itchy eyes are rare in patients with colds, but they are common in patients with allergic rhinitis; On the other hand, patients with allergic rhinitis rarely have a sore throat, muscle aches or fever, and unless they are combined with sinusitis, they usually do not have fever, and they rarely have sore throat, muscle aches, or decreased mobility.

Yan Hongrong, a traditional Chinese medicine physician at the Taipei Branch of the Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, believes that it is not so difficult to distinguish between a cold and an allergy. To put it simply, the timing of the onset of symptoms in allergy patients will be temporal and environmental, the so-called temporal is that the symptoms will only appear when the temperature is low in the morning and evening, or at the turn of the seasons; The environment refers to the environment of allergens, perhaps there are allergens in the air-conditioned room, or the air in the environment is polluted, which will induce allergies.

Therefore, allergies are likely to occur every day for up to 1 month, but the length of the attack can be short-lived, ranging from minutes to hours, and the attack can quickly return to normal after the attack. As for the general cold symptoms, they will cause discomfort throughout the day, but as long as they are 3 5 days** and rest, they can generally be cured; Therefore, if cold symptoms do not improve for more than 5 days, a suspected allergy may be suspected.

After distinguishing whether it is a cold or allergy, there will be no ineffective **, because when a cold occurs, most people will go to Western medicine, because they feel that taking Western medicine to relieve symptoms is the fastest and most effective, and the general doctor will prescribe fever, anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving and other drugs to improve the discomfort caused by the cold. However, if allergic rhinitis is treated as a cold, at most it can only temporarily relieve the allergy symptoms, and because it is only a symptom but not a cure, the allergy will still occur again at the same time the next day.

The most frightening thing is that if the allergy symptoms are not well controlled, I am afraid that it will cause complications, the most serious of which is asthma, about 3 percent of patients with nasal allergies will be combined with asthma, once the attack is likely to be fatal, and 7 percent of asthma patients will also have allergic rhinitis.

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The difference between allergies and colds, many friends are prone to allergies in winter, spring or autumn, generally allergies to pollen or grass seeds, fungi, the main manifestations are runny nose, sneezing, itchy throat or accompanied by cough.

The difference between it and a cold is that in addition to itchy throat and cough, a cold can also cause fever, sore throat and yellow phlegm. Allergies will have systemic manifestations, such as itching or rubella, eczema, and colds are only limited to the upper respiratory tract, there will be fever, stomach cold, allergies will not appear, allergies are only runny nose, sneezing.

In the case of allergies, the reaction occurs only after contact with special objects, and in the case of colds, symptoms occur throughout the day.

In addition to sneezing, colds can also be accompanied by headaches, sore throats and other symptoms. Allergies do not accompany these symptoms.

Everyone should have had a cold and know that they will sneeze and have a runny nose. In fact, patients with allergic rhinitis know that they also have a runny nose and sneezing. However, although the same runny nose and sneezing are still different from each other, can we help us distinguish whether we have a cold?

1. Distinguish between symptoms and severity

A runny nose and sneezing in allergic rhinitis are generally continuous, while a cold causes a runny nose and sneezing to a lesser degree. A cold is a viral infection that can heal on its own and lasts for a short time, and at the same time, it is generally accompanied by some symptoms such as sore throat and cough with yellow sputum. Allergic rhinitis may recur with such symptoms, and sometimes it will be accompanied by some other symptoms, such as:

Itchy eyes, rashes and a series of other symptoms.

2. Distinguish by the type of nasal discharge

Allergic rhinitis is a clear nasal discharge, which is generally in large amounts, while colds are yellow nasal discharge. Therefore, if it is yellow nasal discharge, it is definitely not allergic rhinitis.

3. A cold can be converted into allergic rhinitis

Some people have a cold caused by a fungal infection, and they use antibiotics when they have a cold, so you have a particularly high chance of developing allergic rhinitis. Moreover, allergic rhinitis may very likely lead to sinusitis, which is a stubborn disease, not good**!

Therefore, in our daily life, what if we compare a runny nose with a sneeze to see if we have a cold? Or do you have allergic rhinitis? It's best to go to the clinic to make sure, take your medicine as your doctor prescribes, and remember to take your medicine casually.

Runny nose, sneezing, is it a cold or allergic rhinitis?

Allergic rhinitis does not have other symptoms of a cold, such as fever.

Allergic rhinitis is a constant sneezing.

Rhinitis is very uncomfortable to always feel the urge to sneeze.

Allergic rhinitis causes sneezing, runny nose all day long, and the color is transparent.

People with colds will be very uncomfortable, headache and rhinitis will only say that the nose is uncomfortable.

Allergic rhinitis causes a runny nose and a lack of smell in the nose.

Distinguish by severity of symptoms or by type of nasal discharge.

Your symptoms are typical allergic rhinitis, allergic rhinitis is continuous sneezing, runny nose when encountering cold air or smoke, frequent nasal congestion, memory loss, nasal itching and itchy eyes, children show nose rubbing, eye rubbing, and occasionally cough or asthma.

For the treatment of allergic rhinitis, you should go to your local allergy center to find out the allergens first, and then carry out prevention and desensitization, spacer to eliminate the allergic inflammation of the entire upper respiratory tract, so that it can be cured for a period of time. You take a look at this allergy**: "China Allergy and Asthma Network" has allergic rhinitis**, prevention, desensitization and other columns, and you will benefit a lot from browsing.

It is recommended that you go to a professional ear, nose and throat hospital for a nasal endoscopy. The diagnosis is confirmed only by examination and in combination with clinical symptoms.

Do you still have to check the blood for allergic rhinitis, I also have allergic rhinitis, as long as I get cold, I keep sneezing, at first I thought it was a cold, I kept taking cold medicine, I ate a lot of bottles of cold, I learned that it was allergic rhinitis the day after tomorrow, and I lost a month of medicine for a while, and now I am guilty again, and now I have changed a doctor to prescribe anti-allergic medicine, and now I am **, it seems that allergic rhinitis is not cured, what should I do in this life, I really hate pain when I sneeze.

You have allergic rhinitis.

Sneezing and a runny nose, is it a cold or rhinitis? How to tell the difference?