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Abstract
Allergic rhinitis is a symptom complex resulting
from exposure to a specific antigen. Its prevelance
may amount up to 15% of the total population in
some counteries and so it is one of the commonly
encountered conditions in the practice of otolaryng-
ology.
Steroids therapy either via t0pical application
or systemic administeration is considered a benefi-
cial symptomatic treatment especially in long
standing resistant cases. Many works had been done
to study the beneficial effects of steroid therapy
in allergic rhini tis especially from the clinical
points of view, but there were very few studies to
clarify the effects of steroids on the secretory
immunoglobulins, namely IgE which mediates the
allergic reaction and IgA which is responsible for
the local immunity.
The present work was conducted on twenty
patients suffering from nasal allergy. They were
subjected for detailed and thorough analysis of
their complaints, full oto-rhinological examination,
radiological examination of paranasal sinuses and
cytological examination of nasal secretions for
detection of nasal eosinophilia •