[Pathogenic treatment of nasal allergy]

Starting from the idea that in nasal allergy the nasal conchae--especially the inferior conchae--represent the organs of shock, and that histologic studies have shown the existence in the mucosa and erectile tissue of antibody-forming lymphocytes and plasma cells, the authors assumed that by removing this tissue they might prevent the formation of the antibodies concerned, and hence avoid conflict with the antigen. This would represent an immunosuppressive action, the only method according to allergologists to obtain recovery in allergies. Starting in 1976, the authors performed mucotomy of the tips and lower edges of the inferior conchae and sometimes of the middle conchae, obtaining recovery of all the 40 operated patients with nasal allergy, recovery checked in the course of four years.