PURPOSE: to check the occurrence of the complains of allergic and digestive disturbance in patients with organic-functional dysphonia that were attended in Speech and Language Therapist School Clinic. METHODS: this study is a sequence, retrospective, transverse study. We have done an analysis of 113 patients' medical records with organic-functional dysphonia that had complains of allergic and/or digestive disturbance, from 05 to 76-years-old, 41 male and 72 female. The hypothesis test for 2 proportions was used for the statistic analysis of data. RESULTS: there was a significant relationship of complains on associated allergic and digestive disturbance in patients with organic-functional dysphonia among the complains of allergic disturbance, digestive disturbance, and of both associated, the ones of allergic disturbance were significantly more frequent in patients with Organic-functional dysphonia. CONCLUSION: there is a relationship among the complains of allergic and/or digestive disturbance and the Organic-functional dysphonia, once that they are co-factors for causing dysphonia and larynx lesions. The high frequency concerning complaints of allergic disturbances in people with organic-functional dysphonia in this study can be linked with the weather in the south of Brazil.
Voice Disorders; Voice; Gastroesophageal Reflux; Rhinitis
