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
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