From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!mcnc!jwb Newsgroups: net.med Title: Re: nasal allergy Article-I.D.: mcnc.1502 Posted: Sun Jan 30 21:24:22 1983 Received: Mon Jan 31 04:48:52 1983 References: nmtvax.110 The comments by David Keaton on his relief for allergies are probably useful and reasonable. However-BE Careful with steroids. The non absorbed ones are probably best but the systemic ones (cortosone, etc) can cause a lot of problems. Also be careful with large doses of antihistamines as there is a well documented rebound effect such that increasing doses are required and the patient winds up with runny nose, etc DUE to the anti- histamines. This condition is hard to tell from the allergies themselves. This is not intended as criticism but just as further caution. Jack Buchanan (MD) U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill duke!mcnc!jwb or tucc!jwb