Research Article

Sublingual Immunotherapy with a Five-Grass Pollen Tablet in Adult Patients with Allergic Rhinitis: An Open, Prospective, Noninterventional, Multicenter Study

Table 4

Nasal, ocular, and bronchial symptoms of grass pollen allergy during the 2008 grass pollen season (the reference season) and the 2009 season (the first year of SLIT).

SymptomsSeverityReference seasonImmunotherapy season
(%) (%)

Nasal symptomsAll patients with data570 (100)570 (100)
No symptoms6 (1.1)119 (20.9)
Mild30 (5.3)300 (52.6)
Moderate217 (38.1)120 (21.1)
Severe317 (55.6)31 (5.4)

Ocular symptomsAll patients with data566 (100)566 (100)
No symptoms69 (12.2)228 (40.3)
Mild113 (20.0)241 (42.6)
Moderate214 (37.8)75 (13.3)
Severe170 (30.0)22 (3.9)

Bronchial symptomsAll patients with data546 (100)546 (100)
No symptoms331 (60.6)442 (81.0)
Mild108 (19.8)76 (13.9)
Moderate82 (15.0)24 (4.4)
Severe25 (4.6)4 (0.7)

: number of patients; %: percentage of patients.