A questionnaire which included items on wheeze, cough, eczema, hay fever, and indoor environment, including parental smoking habits, pet ownership, heating and cooking methods, home insulation, damp, mould, and years lived in their houses, was given to 1801 children, aged 12 and 14 from the Highland Region in Scotland. Of the 1537 (85%) who replied, 267 (17%) reported current wheeze, 135 (9%) c...

Grass pollen is well recognized as a common cause of symptoms of allergic hypersensitivity. The frequency with which pollen sensitiveness is manifested by hay fever tends to divert attention from its importance as a factor in the causation of asthmatic attacks, except in those patients in whom hay-fever is present in addition to their asthma, or the small group who have attacks of asthma in the...

roid had been active to maintain calcium due to low intake. They proposed the following formula for use during the dry period (in pounds): Ground barley, 800; rolled barley, 600; wheat bran, 500; cottonseed meal, 100; monosodium phosphate, 40; and salt, 10. Each cow should receive 8 pounds a day for 6 weeks before freshening plus 8 pounds of oat hay or poor hay. In several herds where the incid...

Ninety patients participated in a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled comparison of terfenadine with astemizole in the treatment of hay fever. They entered the trial as a cohort before the grass pollen season and recorded daily their symptoms of itching eyes, sneezing, running nose, and blocked nose on visual analogue scales in diary cards. Over the eight weeks of the trial astemizole ...

Grass pollen is well recognized as a common cause of symptoms of allergic hypersensitivity. The frequency with which pollen sensitiveness is manifested by hay fever tends to divert attention from its importance as a factor in the causation of asthmatic attacks, except in those patients in whom hay-fever is present in addition to their asthma, or the small group who have attacks of asthma in the...

Eighteen children suffering from hay fever were treated with intra-nasal beclomethasone dipropionate (400 mug/day) and an identical placebo aerosol in a double-blind cross-over trial. 17 of the children preferred the intranasal beclomethasone dipropionate, one had no preference, none preferred the placebo. The effect on the nasal symptoms was impressive. Symptom scores decreased, on average, to...

A number of factors are associated with the development of childhood asthma. The purpose of this study was to establish the prevalence of childhood asthma and to explore the socioeconomic background factors associated with childhood asthma in a Norwegian cohort of children aged 4-5 yrs. A questionnaire was given to parents in connection with the ordinary child control of 4-5-yr-old children in ...

Few studies have investigated the relationship between vehicle exhaust and the new onset of asthma among adults. The aim of the present prospective cohort study was to investigate the relationship between the cumulative incidence of asthma and onset of asthma among adults and vehicle exhaust concentrations at home. Participants from three Swedish cities included in the Respiratory Health in Nor...