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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Allergies
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 16:56:21 EDT
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 In article <1668@bmcg.UUCP> yrdbrd@bmcg.UUCP (Larry J. Huntley) writes:
 >My two sons, aged 7 and 4, have recently been diagnosed as being
 >very allergic individuals and I will be taking them to a pediatric
 >allergist.

He then asks for comments on particular questions.  I have no input
on the therapy mentioned.  What I can give is anecdotal (sp?) info.
I had fairly bad allergies all the time I was growing up.  Even in
college they were bad in spring, though better than at home.  I
left school and got a job in the SF Bay area.  I also 'outgrew' my
allergies at the same time.

Then a year or so later, I returned to the central valley of Calif.
(My home town is their) during spring.  **BAM** full fledged allergies
again.

The moral?  Well, there are two.  The partial improvement when I went
to college can be traced to the fact that my father smoked while
I was allergic to tobacco (A very common state of affairs, seems that
the smoke causes sensitization of the fetus due to a subclinical
reaction of the mother, assuming that she doesn't smoke).  When I
went to college, the total insult to the imune system dropped.

The improvement upon moving out of the central valley (By *FAR* the
greatest) was the simple result of moving to somewhere that had
different antigens and fewer of them.  The air usually comes in off
of the ocean and generally contains far less pollen and dust.
In the central valley, the air has had about 500-1000 miles of plants,
dust, bugs, horses, etc. before reaching my nose.

You might want to consider moving to somewhere with a fresh breeze
from the ocean.  I will not ever move back to the central valley.
I feel too good when I am near water...(Now if I could just get
the locals to stop smoking ... 1/2 :-)

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