Chronic Throat Symptoms: Mechanisms in Allergy
The data summarised in Table 1 suggests that patients with
airway allergy experience increased rates of chronic, irritative throat
symptoms in the absence of other discernible organic causes. Cough is
the symptom most widely reported, which is unsurprising given its
significance in lower airway disease. Nonetheless, various and often
concurrent throat complaints such as globus, dysphonia, mucus sensation,
throat clearing and others equally troublesome for this patient group.
Potential mechanisms postulated to underpin the relationship between
allergy and UCTS, as show in Figure 1 , are summarised below.