“What fixes allergic rhinitis?”

Allergic rhinitis is very similar to sinus allergies which can be treated with acupuncture and herbs. I recommend 2-3 sessions a week for 4-6 weeks. Depending on how fast your body responds, we may need to modify the treatment frequency and length.

Acupuncture is very successful for this condition

Chinese medicine/acupuncture has a pretty good track record with most kinds of allergy. Otherwise, you're looking at management with a variety of over the counter or prescription medication.

Allergic rhinitis is most often a seasonal problem caused by pollens or some other airborne irritant .Antihistamines and nasal sprays usually give symptomatic relief. However if symptoms are more than seasonal you should consider allergy testing and possibly desensitization

If by "fix" you mean cure permanently, immunotherapy is likely the only way this is possible. However, in terms of living with allergies (like I do), if you're merely trying to reduce your symptoms and feel better while understanding that you still have allergies, then management depends on the specific allergies, their severity, and potential avoidability. For example, if you find that you are allergic to cat dander, the fix would be to avoid cats. If you are allergic to multiple environmental triggers (such as pollen, plants, dust, mold, etc) avoidance becomes nearly impossible. My approach to allergy treatment is to start simply. Antihistamines such as cetirizine (Zyrtec), loratadine (Claritin), and fexofenadine (Allegra) are all available over the counter without a prescription. You can also try a nasal steroid spray such as fluticasone (Flonase) or mometasone (Nasonex) instead of, or in combination with, a daily antihistamine.

In patients with severe symptoms that are not well controlled by the afore-mentioned options, or in patients who cannot tolerate those medicines, I usually recommend formal allergy testing by a specialist. This is most commonly achieved through skin scratch tests of a broad panel of a large number of different allergens, some of which are curated by geographic region to account for local flora.

Immunotherapy is essentially a series of injections designed to gradually desensitize your body to the specific allergens a patient has tested positive to. The process is lengthy and time-consuming, and often expensive, but it really works well for many patients.