Effects of positive psychological control intervention on sleep and psychology of officers and soldiers working at sea.

Background: The working environment of submarine crews is also very special. They are in a closed, high-temperature, high-noise, high-vibration and narrow working and living space for a long time, and they suffer from physical discomfort caused by seasickness, which will affect the mental health of officers and soldiers. American psychologists have achieved positive results in psychological resilience training for officers and soldiers from the perspective of positive psychology.

[Clinical features of non-allergic rhinitis and the therapeutic efficacy of combination of intranasal steroid and H1-antihistamine].

Objective: To investigate the basic clinical features of non-allergic rhinitis (NAR) in age, sex, incentives, and the effect of treatment with combined intranasal steroids and antihistamines.

Methods: One hundred consecutive NAR patients were included in this study and the age, gender, predisposing factors and clinical symptoms were analyzed. Combined intranasal steroids and antihistamines used for 8 weeks, the symptoms were recorded before and after treatment with visual analogue scale(VAS) score as the assessment of treatment effects.

[Survey on clinical characteristics of pediatric allergic rhinitis].

Objective: To investigate the clinical symptom, precipitating factor, associated symptom, family history and life quality of pediatric patients with allergic rhinitis, and to analyze the characteristic of clinical symptoms.

Methods: A questionnaire survey on pediatric AR patients since June 2008 to June 2010, one hundred and forty-eight pediatric AR patients were divided into 2 groups, group A (n = 43) included children aged from 3.2 to 6.

[Intranasal pretreatment with toll like receptor 9 ligand CpG oligodeoxynucleotides prevents the development of allergic rhinitis in juvenile guinea pigs].

Objective: To evaluate the therapeutic effect of intranasal oligodeoxynucleotides with CpG motifs (CpG ODN) in prevention of allergic rhinitis in juvenile guinea pigs.

Methods: Juvenile guinea pigs aged from 7 to 10 weeks were administrated with CpG ODN alone or combined with OVA at single dose concentration intranasally (on day 0, 5, 10, 15 in sequence) while control and blank group were administrated with saline. Both experimental and control animals were again sensitized by OVA (on day 18, 25), and 14 days after second sensitization animals were challenged by OVA intranasally (on days 39 and 46).

[Correlation analysis of two serum specific IgE test systems and skin prick test in allergic rhinitis patients].

Objective: To evaluate the correlation between two serum specific IgE and skin prick test (SPT) for the diagnosis of allergic rhinitis.

Methods: Two hundred and sixteen patients were referred to the allergist for a suspected allergic rhinitis between June and October in 2009. Patients were classified as positive for inhalant allergy if they had a positive clinical history and a related positive SPT for the suspected inhalant allergen.

Thymic stromal lymphopoietin expression is increased in nasal epithelial cells of patients with mugwort pollen sensitive-seasonal allergic rhinitis.

Background: Excessive expression of thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) has been demonstrated in asthmatic airway epithelia and in nasal epithelia from animal models of allergic rhinitis (AR), but the evidence of expression of TSLP in nasal epithelial cells (NECs) of patients with AR is lacking. We aimed to investigate the expression of TSLP in NECs of patients with mugwort sensitive-seasonal AR and determine whether it is associated with severity of symptoms and the number of infiltrated eosinophils in nasal mucosa.

Methods: NECs specimens were obtained by scraping with plastic curettes from the nasal inferior turbinates of patients with mugwort pollen sensitive-seasonal AR (n = 22) and nonallergic controls (n = 11) during last peak mugwort pollen season.