[Rhinorheomanometry in the self care of allergic patients]

Some pulmonary flow and pressure meters of low price and pocket shape are constructed particularly for self use and are prescripted by pulmologists. The use of these measuring instruments for rhinology was also attempted. None of the methodes also suggested supplied comparable results with rhinorheomanometry. If the already purchasable pulmonary measuring instrument INSPIRx is combined with a suitable sloping tube manometer we got results with a correlation coefficient of 0.9 in comparison to active anterior rhinorheomanometry. Moreover a completely new developed instrument of simple use is presented consisting only of cheap clinical one way articles. The measuring instrument suits the use in the allergologic consulting hour especially in patients away from hospital being under allergologic control because of repeated operations of the nasal sinus, allergic rhinitis, nasal polyposis or accompaniing bronchial asthma. By these patients the catarrh and therefore also the disabled nasal air passage are leading symptoms.