Jurnal Medika Hutama
Vol. 2 No. 02 Januari (2021): Jurnal Medika Hutama

Terapi Komplementer Rinitis Alergi

Hafshah Hafshah (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
06 Jan 2021

Abstract

Allergic rhinitis is a form of hypersensitivity reaction on an atopic patient who sensitized by a specific allergen before. Allergic rhinitis symptoms are sneezing, nasal pruritic, airway obstruction, and rinorrhea. In Indonesia, the prevalence number of rhinitis allergic reach 1.5 – 12.4%. Despite it’s not directly related to the cause of death, allergic rhinitis affects the quality of life, sleep, exercise tolerance, productivity, and social function of its sufferer. Complementary therapies is an additional therapy that use any certain modality which not included in conventional drugs. Complementary therapies aimed to increase the health level. Drugs, herbs, or methods which can be used in complementary therapy are honey, royal jelly and propolis, probiotic, ginger, vitamin D, vitamin E, and acupoint herbal plaster. Complementary therapies can be used in rhinitis allergic treatment beside of conventional therapy.

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