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A STUDY TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF INDIVISUALISED HOMOEOPATHIC APPROACH IN THE TREATMENT OF SEASONAL ALLERGIC RHINITIS

Apoorva Saxena* and Yashasvi Shakdivipiya

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Background: Allergic rhinitis (A.R.) is a symptomatic disorder of the respiratory system which is induced by an IgE inflammation after exposure of allergen. It is characterized by sneezing, rhinorrhoea, obstruction of nasal passage. There is conjunctival, nasal and pharyngeal itching and lacrimation. It may be seasonal or perennial. In conventional system of medicine, Avoidance therapy, drug therapy like antihistamines and immunotherapy is used. Homoeopathic system of medicine not only gives relief, but it also cures worse cases of allergic rhinitis without any suppression by the use of constitutional homoeopathic prescribing. Objective: To access the role of Indivisualised Homoeopathic approach, in the treatment of Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis, by assessing the pre and post treatment SFAR score. Method: 30 patients were screened from the OPD of Dr. Girendra Pal Homoeopathic Hospital, Saipura, Sanganer, and from O.P.D of Dr. M. P. K. Homoeopathic Medical College, Hospital& Research Centre, Sindhi camp, Jaipur for inclusion and exclusion criteria and out of these 25 patients, diagnosed for seasonal allergic rhinitis, on the basis of clinical history, examination, analysis, evaluation and totality of the case, were enrolled for this Prospective Interventional Clinical Trial. Then proper repertorisation was done using the most indicated repertory. These patients were assessed by the score for allergic rhinitis (SFAR) score at baseline/ first week and after receiving indivisualised homoeopathic medicine in appropriate potency, these were reassessed for SFAR score at 6th follow up/ at end of study duration. Result: In this study, 18(72%) patients were male. The maximum incidence of allergic rhinitis was seen in the age group of 20- 25years i.e., 7(28%). Maximum cases had a positive family history of allergic rhinitis i.e 18(72 %) cases. The mean SFAR score decreased from 12.6, before treatment to 8.52 after treatment. After applying paired t test, p-value came out to be 2.664318E-10, i.e., the test is significant (as, p

Keywords: Seasonal allergic rhinitis, Indivisualised homoeopathic medicine, Rhinorrhoea, SFAR score.