Characteristics of nonallergic vasomotor rhinitis.docVIP

NARCONSENSUSPANELPROCEEDINGS,PART1 CharacteristicsofNonallergicVasomotorRhinitis JonathanA.Bernstein,MD INTRODUCTION onallergicrhinitis(NAR)conditionsarecurrentlycon- sidereddiagnosesbyexclusion.Toestablishade?nitive diagnosis of vasomotor rhinitis (VMR) and nonallergic rhi- nitiswitheosinophiliasyndrome(NARES),allothernonal- lergicrhinitissyndromesshouldbeproperlyconsideredand Abstract: Nonallergic rhinitis (NAR) conditions are currently N considered diagnoses byexclusion. Adiagnosis ofNARrequires negative speci?c IgE responses by skin or serologic testing and more recently testing to exclu