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, a medical monitoring company. "Last season at the same time, we were around. million nationwide. "More than million people suffer from seasonal allergies. The spring.. HIGHER TEMPERATURES CAUSING MORE MISERY THAN GOOD CHEER, ALLERGY SUFFERERS TAKE HEAT IN WEATHER Wheezing, sneezing, itchy eyes and runny noses. For allergy sufferers besieged by these miseries, it might as well be spring. Even though winter has officially begun, higher temperatures and a host of allergens along with colds and flu are making lots of people miserable. Typically, it is mold and pollen that are the allergy culprits. Those irritants are generally at their worst from spring to fall. But d ors are seeing patients felled by similar stuff. "If someone has.. St. Louis Post Dispatch , Achoo Hot Weather Aggravates Allergies The record breaking warm temperatures that have descended over the St. Louis area also have sent allergy sufferers scurrying to drugstores for relief. ''There's a lot of people coming in with eye irritations, stuffy noses and head congestion,'' said Bernard Mann, pharmacist at Wesche's Pharmacy at South Grand Boulevard in south St. Louis. The temperature reached a high of degrees Tuesday, approaching the.. Chicago Sun Times , Allergies nothing to sneeze at With the hay fever season picking up steam, allergy sufferers don't have to be told that has been a very bad year. Longtime victims know that months before the first sneeze, "you can tell what kind of allergy season it's going to be by the amount of rain in the spring," said Dr. Alan Resnick, a Chicago area allergist who is an associate at Children's Memorial Hospital. "And the hot summer we've had.. (CA) , GENENTECH HALTS ALLERGY DRUG TRIAL, PEANUT SENSITIVITY TEST PROVOKES STRONG REACTION IN VOLUNTEERS Biotechnology company Genentech has stopped development of a promising peanut allergy treatment because of safety concerns raised during human experiments, a company spokesman said Tuesday. Genentech officials stopped development of the drug last month after two volunteers had a more severe allergic reaction to peanuts than expected, spokesman Neil Cohen said. Volunteers in the trial were given peanut protein to g e how severe their allergies were and as a way to measure the effectiveness.. Southern Illinoisan (Carbondale, IL) May , Pro teams make concessions for fans with severe allergies NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — A year ago, Nicholas Jones' peanut allergy forced his family to leave a New Britain Rock Cats game minutes after arriving. Earlier this month, the year old fan returned to the stadium to throw out the first pitch. Through a special arrangement with the Eastern League team and a local support group for people with severe food allergies, a “food free” section was established at New Britain stadium. Similar.. Bradenton Herald, The (FL) , INFANT ALLERGIES OFTEN MISDIAGNOSED Kim Burban had taken only a few steps after giving her baby a sip of lactose free milk when her month old d hter began turning red and wheezing. She wasn't choking and the symptoms seemed to be in line with a skin condition that had been worsening for weeks. Only this time, little Tiffani Burban seemed to be having a more severe reaction to something. A trip to the emergency room garnered a diagnosis of baby acne, but nothing specific about Tiffani's reaction. So.. Newsday (Melville, NY) , Study Child's Peanut Allergy May Begin at Breast Feeding Women who breast feed after eating peanuts can cause peanut allergies in their children, research suggests. A study published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association demonstrated that peanut protein was present in breast milk. Babies are more prone to developing food allergies than are older children because of their immature immune systems. It is generally thought that avoiding particularly potent foods such as peanuts until at least age will help prevent..
Age, The (Melbourne, Australia) , Study links colic to food allergies Melbourne researchers are investigating whether colic is caused by food allergies in breast feeding mothers and can be alleviated by putting mothers on special diets. The director of the Royal Children's Hospital's allergy department, Dr David Hill, said the department's previous studies indicated that mothers placed on low allergy diets for a short period had a sharp reduction in babies' distress. A baby with colic is defined as one who cries.. New York Times, The (NY) , A Plethora of Pollen Allergy Sufferers Don't Need a Machine to Tell Them Achoo! On top of a building in downtown Brooklyn with nice views of the harbor on one side and Manhattan on the other sits a little monitor of human misery called a Rotorod Sampler, Model. It's about the size of a hatbox, with a whirligig that twirls in the breeze. And every weekday afternoon, Dr. Ishtiaq Chaudhry makes his way upstairs to hear it tell its sad tale.

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