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Cat Washing
Most patients who are allergic to cats are aware of symptoms on entering a house with a cat or if they touch their face after contact with an animal. Purification of the main cat allergen Fel d 1 from cat washings or pelt extract...
Environmental control: an idea whose time has come
The importance of the relationship between asthma and allergy is now well-recognized [1,7]. Studies of asthmatic patients with house dust mite allergy have demonstrated the importance of house dust mite avoidance measures in the...
First-line treatment of hay fever: What is the best option?
Selecting a first-line treatment for seasonal allergic rhinitis, or hay fever, can be perplexing in view of the wide range of available treatment modalities that are of approximately equal efficacy and widely advertised to the...
Insect Venom Allergies
Bees and ants usually are looking for food, not trouble. But cross their paths, or their nests, and you could feel their sting.
How to Create a Dust-Free Bedroom
If you are dust-sensitive, especially if you have allergies and/or asthma, you can reduce some of your misery by creating a "dust-free" bedroom