@article{ref1,
title="Managing impairment in patients with allergic rhinitis",
journal="Allergy and asthma proceedings",
year="2006",
author="Stokes, Jeffrey and Fenstad, Eric and Casale, Thomas B.",
volume="27",
number="1",
pages="12-16",
abstract="Allergic rhinitis is a common medical problem in both the adult and the pediatric population. A main complication of this disease is a reduction in the patient's quality of life. Individuals with either seasonal or perennial allergic rhinitis often are impaired, adversely affecting work and/or school performance. This impairment can result from the disease itself and the treatment thereof. Oral antihistamines are the mainstay of treatment for allergic disease. First-generation antihistamines are considered sedating and frequently are impairing even when sedation is absent. Second-generation antihistamines show some class variability regarding impairment but as a group are clearly less impairing than their first-generation predecessors. Second-generation antihistamines are the preferred medication when antihistamines are necessary.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1088-5412",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}