Prahl, P., Wilken-Jensen, K., and Mygind, N. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 875. Beclomethasone dipropionate aerosol in treatment of hay fever in children. Eighteen children suffering from hay fever were treated with intra-nasal beclomethasone dipropionate (400 ,ug/day) and an identical placebo aerosol in a double-blind cross-over trial. 17 of the children preferred the intranasa...

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The ideal setting for this approach is a special unit in which appropriate skills can be practised and taught. Some large hospital centres have established toenail clinics calling on the interrelated specialties and catering for many patients. Yet a group practice may be the best place to site a toenail clinic: costs are generally lower, and many surgeries and health centres provide a setting f...

BACKGROUND The literature indicates that early exposure to children in the family and to day care permanently influences the development of allergic disease. A study was undertaken to examine the associations of family size and day care with adult asthma and hay fever and to determine whether these associations are mediated through specific IgE production and whether they vary with allergic pre...

The aims of this study were to estimate the risk to bakers of developing hay fever and rhinitis, to assess the modifying effect of atopy and to estimate the occurrence of job change due to nasal symptoms. A retrospective cohort study was performed among bakers trained in Swedish trade schools from 1961 to 1989 (n=2,923). School control subjects (n=1,258) comprised students in other programmes i...

The aim of the present study was to assess which factors contribute to the lower prevalence of allergic diseases in farmers' children, and the importance of timing of exposure. In a cross-sectional questionnaire survey, asthma symptoms, hay fever and eczema were assessed, as well as current, early and prenatal farm-related exposures in 1,333 farmers' children and 566 reference children aged 5-1...