Self-Management in Allergic Rhinitis: Strategies, Outcomes and Integration into Clinical Care

Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a common disease, characterized by typical symptoms and type 2 inflammation.

Standard treatment is usually effective and safe, and most medications are available as over-the-counter (OTC).

Therefore, AR patients, mostly at the AR onset or if symptoms are mild, prefer to manage symptoms themselves.

However, self-management could be associated with problems, including inadequate control or medication abuse.

Therefore, this paper aimed at presenting and discussing this issue.

Ideally, self-management should be conducted under medical supervision.

In this regard, telemedicine could represent a valuable tool for implementing self-management.

Visual analog scale (VAS) is a perfect parameter to measure symptom severity, medications use, and AR control.

In addition, VAS is easily monitored over time.

Presently, a mobile application allows to AR patients of self-managing themselves.

Therefore, mobile healthcare may supply fundamental support in communication and decision-making.

In this regard, VAS represents the best tool to monitor symptoms’ severity and control over time.

Finally, pharmacological and non-pharmacological remedies are numerous and effective but should be used wisely.