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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2018 Feb;8(2):108–352. doi: 10.1002/alr.22073

TABLE III.C.

Differential diagnosis of allergic rhinitis*

Types of rhinitisa
• Drug-induced rhinitis
• Rhinitis medicamentosa
• Occupational rhinitis
• Chemical rhinitis
• Smoke-induced rhinitis
• Infectious rhinitis
• Rhinitis of pregnancy and hormonally-induced rhinitis
• Food- and alcohol-induced rhinitis
• NARES
• Vasomotor rhinitis (nonallergic rhinopathy)
• Age-related rhinitis (ie, elderly)
• Empty nose syndrome
• Atrophic rhinitis
• Autoimmune, granulomatous, and vasculitic rhinitis
• Rhinosinusitis
*

For each of these conditions, the similarities and differences to allergic rhinitis are discussed within each content section.

a

This table is specific to various etiologies of rhinitis. Structural sinonasal conditions (ie, deviated septum), tumors, and cerebrospinal fluid leak are not listed here. NARES = nonallergic rhinitis with eosinophilia syndrome.

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