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VASOMOTOR RHINITIS
French K. Hansel
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Abstract
During recent years, clinicians have investigated extensively the causative factors in vasomotor rhinitis, more particularly the seasonal vasomotor rhinitis or so-called hay-fever. There is, however, a group of cases in which this type of symptoms continues throughout the year, without a definite seasonal activity. I shall review here the clinical course and the reactions to treatment in 100 cases of vasomotor rhinitis observed at the Mayo Clinic during the last two years. The cases were grouped for study according to the methods of previous observers. Particular attention was directed to the so-called reflex type of case, in which no protein sensitization factors were demonstrable. The negative skin sensitization tests in these cases do not prove that such factors are absent. There were sixty-one cases in this group; the remaining thirty-nine in which the skin reactions were positive were classified with the protein sensitization group. ETIOLOGY In studying the cause of