Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical efficacy of nasal administration of Bikangfu in the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis in children.
METHODS A total of 168 children with chronic rhinosinusitis were randomly divided into observation group and control group, 84 cases in each group. The observation group was given nasal administration of Bikangfu therapy, the control group was given Tongqiao Biyan granules combined with Sinupret drops orally. The course of treatment was four weeks. The changes of visual analog scale (VAS) symptom score, symptoms and signs scores of rhinosinusitis in traditional Chinese medicine, Lund-Mackay score of nasal sinus CT were observed in patients treated before and after treatment. The levels of nasal secretions and serum inflammatory factors including prostaglandin D
2 (PGD
2), leukotriene C4 (LTC4), interleukins (IL-17, IL-33), eosinophil cationic protein (ECP), and immunoglobulin (IgE) were measured before and after treatment in the two groups.
RESULTS After treatment, the VAS score, traditional Chinese medicine symptoms and signs scores, and Lund-Mackay score of nasal sinus CT in the two groups were decreased significantly compared with those before treatment (
P < 0.05,
P < 0.01), while the results in the observation group were better than those the control group (
P < 0.05,
P < 0.01). The total effective rate after treatment was better in the observation group than that in the control group (
P < 0.01). In addition, the levels of PGD
2, LTC4, IL-17, IL-33, ECP, and IgE in the serum and nasal secretions in both groups were lower than those before treatment (
P < 0.05,
P < 0.01), while the results in the observation group were better than those in the control group (
P < 0.05,
P < 0.01). Besides, there was no obvious adverse reaction occurred in the two groups after treatment.
CONCLUSION With no adverse reaction, nasal administration of Bikangfu therapy can effectively reduce the clinical symptoms of children with chronic rhinosinusitis. Its mechanism of action may be related to the regulation of inflammatory factors in serum and nasal secretions.