The Board has granted an initial 10 percent rating for the veteran's service-connected perennial allergic rhinitis, finding that her symptoms warrant this rating based on three to six non-incapacitating episodes per year characterized by headaches and purulent discharge or crusting.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports a finding of at most three episodes per year, which does not meet the criteria for a higher rating under Diagnostic Code 6514 (chronic sinusitis).
- Claimed conditions
- perennial allergic rhinitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 20, 2008
- Citation
- 0820329
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