You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Best practice
Fifteen-minute consultation: Child with persistent runny nose
  1. Elizabeth Powell1,
  2. Omer Berk2,
  3. Jessica Bewick3,
  4. Zaraquiza Q Zolkipli1
  1. 1 Department of Paediatric Allergy, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
  2. 2 Department of Paediatrics, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
  3. 3 Department of ENT, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth Powell, Department of Paediatric Allergy, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK; e.a.powell{at}gmail.com

Abstract

A child with persistent runny nose may cause significant parental anxiety and healthcare utilisation. While the most common diagnoses are recurrent acute viral upper respiratory tract infections and allergic rhinitis, a careful history and examination is necessary to exclude other causes and to identify comorbidities. Treatment can then be tailored to the underlying cause. The aim of this article is to provide a systematic approach to such patients.

  • allergy and immunology
  • growth
  • paediatrics

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2021-323242

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Twitter @omer_berk07

    • EP and OB contributed equally.

    • Contributors EP and OB created the initial draft. JB and ZQZ reviewed and edited the draft.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.