Collaborative Care Model for Allergic Rhinitis With Obstructive Sleep Apnea From Prevention to Treatment.

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

In this project,the investigators aim to establish a Collaborative Care Model of TCM and Western Medicine to improve the quality of life and symptoms of AR with OSA children and educate care-givers diet and massage information to improve self-care ability and alleviate anxiety for parents. In addition, the investigators will use portable oxymeter to detect the change of SpO2 and respiratory arousal index daily at home and evaluate sensitivity and specificity of portable oxymeter device applied in OSA. The investigators want to give holistic health care for participants and care-givers by this project. In addition, the investigators will build a training environment to provide medical education and training opportunity to teach medical students and clinician the knowledge of pediatric allergic rhinitis and obstructive sleep apnea by caring patients and learning from clinical cases.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: China Medical University Hospital
• Treatments: Montelukast

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age less than 18 years old

2. Patients with persistent, moderate to severe allergic rhinitis who have been diagnosed by ARIA (2014) diagnostic criteria

3. AHI by polysomnography is >1 and diagnosis with obstructive sleep apnea.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Abnormal craniofacial structure and require surgery.

2. Patients with sleep apnea caused by muscular dysplasia of the upper respiratory tract ( eg. cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and other congenital muscular hypoplasia).

3. Mental or behavioral abnormalities that cannot cooperate with the researcher, such as schizophrenia, depression, suicidal ideation, etc.

4. Allergy to the treatment previously

5. Any disease or organ system dysfunction that may be life-threatening