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. 2009 Jun 15;2(6):98–101. doi: 10.1097/WOX.0b013e3181a9d55b

Table 1.

Chronic Rhinitis Syndromes that are Nonallergic and Noninfectious and Not Due to Anatomical/Mechanical Causes*

• Drug-induced rhinitis, including rhinitis medicamentosa
• Gustatory rhinitis
• Hormonal-induced rhinitis, including the rhinitis of pregnancy
• Nonallergic rhinitis with eosinophilia
• Senile rhinitis
• Atrophic rhinitis
• Cerebral spinal fluid leak
• Nonallergic rhinopathy (NAR), previously known as vasomotor rhinitis (VMR), or idiopathic nonallergic rhinitis

*Both anatomic/mechanical abnormalities and chronic infectious rhinitis and rhinosinusitis are excluded.

Adapted from J World Allergy Org. 2009;2:20-25 and J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2008;122(2 suppl):S1-S84.