Correlation Between Sinusitis and Allergy

Nasal allergy and sinusitis are common disease which cause main health problem to many people in the world especially on our country after the embargo. The increase of pollutants in the last period due to severe condition and the complicated life which lead to spread and increase of allergy and sinusitis. Therefore, this study was conducted planed incited to determine the relationship between allergy and sinusitis and shed light on some important data which cause nasal allergy and sinusitis.
The results showed that sinusitis was dominated in house wives (70.4%) and in students males (43.4%). High incidence of headache was in females (80.2%) and in males (61.4%). Also the percentage of Allergy in patients without asthma were in males (15.2%) and in females (10.3%), whereas in patients with allergy and asthma were (3.6%) in male and (6.0%) in females. The percentage of nasal polyps which considered to be one of the complication of sinusitis due to allergy was in females (13.6%) and the males (15.7%).