title: [Clinical features of ocular symptom in patients with allergic rhinitis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the clinical characteristics of ocular symptoms in patients with allergic rhinitis (AR) and the impact of the ocular symptoms on patients' quality of life.
  
  
  METHODS
  AR patients' history and clinical data were collected and analyzed. One hundred cases were extracted from adult patients with and without ocular symptoms in each group and their quality of life were evaluated using rhino-conjunctivitis quality of life questionnaire (RQLQ).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Totally 1119 cases were collected and 859 cases had ocular symptoms. Of the patients with ocular symptoms, 582 cases were mild, 234 cases were moderate, 43 cases were severe. Eye itching was the most common symptom, followed by tears, hyperemia and swelling. Patients with ocular symptoms had longer disease history than non ocular symptom group (P < 0.05). There was a positive correlation between ocular and nasal symptoms (P < 0.01); patients with ocular symptoms had more severe nasal symptoms than patients without ocular problems; while patients with moderate to severe AR had more severe ocular symptoms than mild AR patients (P < 0.01). Female patients had higher incidence (P < 0.05) and ocular symptoms score (P < 0.05) than male. Children less than 10 years old had a relative lower incidence and score of ocular symptoms. While the incidence and score had an increasing trend for patients older than fifty. There was no difference regarding the type and number of allergen in the patients with and without ocular symptom. Moreover, patients with ocular symptoms had higher scores in the domains of non-nose/eye symptoms, practical problems, ocular symptoms, emotional function and total score in RQLQ than patients without ocular symptom.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It was common for the AR patients to have ocular symptoms, and ocular symptoms had obvious influence on the patients' quality of life. So controlling of the ocular symptoms should not be ignored during the diagnosis and treatment of AR.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Yafeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hongting
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xuelian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Shixi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000485:Allergens; D002648:Child; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life; D065631:Rhinitis, Allergic / Q000150:complications*; D012221:Rhinitis, Allergic, Perennial / Q000150:complications; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D000485:Allergens