吸入性芳香療法改善慢性過敏性鼻炎門診病人症狀之初探

A Study of Using Aromatherapy of Inhalation to Release Clinical Symptoms in Out-department Patients with Chronic Allergic Rhinitis

黃宜純(Lucia Y. Huang) ； 賴仁淙(Jen-Tsung Lai) ； 劉波兒(Po-Erh Liu) ； 譚蓉瑩(Rung-Yin Tang)

《美容科技學刊》 3卷1期 (2006/02) Pp. 97-112

https://doi.org/10.30001/JIES.200602.0008

摘要

本研究以中部某區域級教學醫院之耳鼻喉科門診全程參與之13名病人為研究對象，藉由六週前後主觀與客觀的症狀量表與衛教追蹤來了解吸入式芳香療法對妙鼻炎患者症狀緩解的效果。結果顯示，吸入性芳香療法對改善個案過敏生理症狀方面，僅對改善鼻子癢達到緩解成效之顯著性。改善日常活動方面，包括增加病患閱讀、思考等注意力，減少使用過敏藥物影響白天之精神狀況，增加睡眠品質，與減少因症狀對工作或上課之影響等緩解成效均達顯著性。經初步結果，研究小組建議病人可在西醫治療外，經醫師許可下，嚐試以專業芳療師調配的複方精油以吸入法來輔助緩解生理與日常生活之不適；未來仍須進行具臨床理學依據之實驗設計，以作為衛生教育之參考。

關鍵字

過敏性鼻炎 ； 芳香療法 ； 吸入法

並列摘要

The thirteen, participants of this study are the out-department patients in a otolaryngology of a teaching hospital located in central Taiwan. Through a six-week survey with subjective and objective symptoms measurement figures, we learned how aromatherapy can release symptoms on patients with allergic rhinitis. The result shows that inhalation aromatherapy is provided with noticeable effect on helping nose relieve itching symptom, but not on relieving other symptoms like nasal congestion, rhinorrhea and sneezing. On the other hand, it accomplishes obvious effect with regards to helping patients improve daily activities condition including reading, being the influence from the side-effect that may affect working or studying condition during the day, reinforcing sleeping quality, etc. After this initial research, some suggestions have made that patients try inhalation aromatherapy which prepared by professional aromatherapist to release clinical symptoms and uncomfortableness in everyday activities. In addition, there are clinical experiments to be conducted as the reference of hygienic education.

並列關鍵字

allergic rhinitis ； aromatherapy ； inhalation

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