PREVENTIVE CARE FOR JAPANESE CEDAR POLLINOSIS

• Published in: JIBI INKOKA TEMBO Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 51 - 56
• Main Authors: Saito, Yuko, Seno, Satoshi, Dake, Yoshihiro, Enomoto, Tadao, Sakoda, Takema
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Society of Oto-rhino-laryngology Tokyo 2003; 耳鼻咽喉科展望会
• Subjects: Japanese cedar pollinosis; preventive care; questionnaire; アンケート; スギ花粉症; セルフケア; 抗原回避
• ISSN: 0386-9687; 1883-6429
• DOI: 10.11453/orltokyo1958.46.51

Using questionnaires, we studied the measures patients with Japanese cedar pollinosis took to avoid contact with pollen in 2000. Subjects were 1, 365 patients over 18 years old who visited ear, nose, and throat (ENT) clinics during cedar pollen dispersion in 2000. Of these, 509 (37.3%) took preventive care such as wearing a face mask (71.3%), staying indoors (22.6%), wearing glasses (19.5%), drying clothes and futons indoors (16.5%), washing the face, gargling and blowing the nose after going out (6.5%), and keeping windows and doors closed (2.8%). We found no significant correlation between preventive measures and nasal symptom severity. Preventive measures correlated significantly with patient suffering. We concluded that the reason for this high correlation was because patients with many symptoms, such as nasal, eye, pharyngolaryngeal and dermatic, practice whole-body preventive care.