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They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . Asthma and allergy information and research (aair) is the name for the leicester branch of the midlands ashtma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity with its headquarters at 12 vernon st, derby, u. K. Its medical advisor is dr. Martin stern, consultant clinical immunologist at leicester general hospital and leicester royal infirmary. Email (aair@globalnet. Co. Uk) snail mail asthma maara employs two experienced aerobiologists (julie corden and wendy millington) in derby, and supports such work (aerobiology) at the department of botany at the university of leicester (john bailey and a research fellow). We also work closely with ursula allitt, in cambridge, uk, on fungal aerobiology. A major current interest is indoor air and indoor airborne fungi, as previous work has almost entirely been done outdoors, whereas our patients spend the overwhelming majority of their time in the indoor and built environment. We have devised an indoor spore sampler which, for the first time, permits indoor airborne fungi and pollens to be studied quantitatively to the standards which are routine for outdoor aerobiology. . Much printed advice is unreliable. This is an attempt to be sensible, but it is brief and needs expanding, given the major inconvenience and expense of effective action. We sell good quality bedding covers for mite dust control, the leaflet mentions these, though you can get covers from other sources too. . Pets cause asthma and other allergies, no doubt about it. But getting rid of a loved pet is not easy, and the evidence that it is responsible for your illness may not be obvious to you. Here are some facts and opinions. . This very common itchy skin complaint, also called nettlerash or hives , is frustrating because the cause often cannot be found. Long-term antihistamines may be the best answer, but they don t always work well enough. . To obtain these, send an a5 sae, but we hope to put the text on our website soon. We& ,ll be encouraged to do so if we get your email (aair@globalnet. Co. Uk) showing there is a demand). 2) anaphylaxis prevention and treatment we provide instruction in allergen avoidance and adrenaline administration at our offices in leicester, currently at leicester general hospital. 3) lectures to patient groups dr stern is willing to lecture to self-help groups within reasonable reach in the uk on asthma, food allergy including nut allergy, atopic eczema, and other allergy-related subjects. . 1) the above leaflets are available by arrangement. There is likely to be a charge covering our costs for quantities greater than ten leaflets. 2) videotapes of lectures by top experts are available on loan to individual doctors with a special interest free of charge (we charge for p p). Some will play on a standard uk vhs video player, but the majority are in the american ntsc format and require a video recorder which is either multi-standard or of the american type. Your medical illustration or audiovisual department may well have such a machine and a few private individuals own them. 3) lectures to medical groups dr stern is willing to lecture to groups within the uk on the diagnosis and management of anaphylaxis, the important role of allergy in asthma, food allergy including nut allergy, atopic eczema, and other allergy-related subjects. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them? . New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them? . New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them? . New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them? . New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . The following abstract may be of interest phentolamine reversal of epinephrine-induced digital vasospasm. How to save an ischemic finger. Hinterberger, jw, kintzi, he department of family and community medicine, lancaster general hospital. Arch-fam-med. 1994 feb, 3(2) 193-5 a 17-year-old girl accidently injected her thumb with an adult autoinjector epinephrine syringe, resulting in rapid digital ischemia. Local infiltration of 0. 5% phentolamine mesylate injected at the puncture site immediately resolved the ischemia and resulted in no long-term sequelae. Similar cases of epinephrine-induced digital ischemia are reviewed herein, revealing phentolamine to be the drug of choice for reversal of this type of ischemia. Alternative attempts to restore blood flow included warm water immersion, amyl nitrite inhalations, metacarpal nerve block, and application of topical nitroglycerin paste, each was found to be ineffective. We conclude that digital ischemia secondary to accidental injection of epinephrine can be quickly and safely reversed with the use of 0. 5% phentolamine locally infiltrated in the region of accidental injection. . This page is maintained by dr. Martin stern this page created 5 dec 1997, amended 29 may 99. This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them? . New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . These two hormones are adrenaline (epinephrine in the usa) and hydrocortisone (a steroid). In practice we use modified forms of these hormones to get fewer side effects. Adrenaline (epinephrine) shoots into our bloodstream when we have a sudden fright or emergency. It is the quick-acting hormone from the middle of the adrenal glands near our kidneys. It makes your pulse race, makes your heart thump, and readies your body for emergency action. In asthma, the medicines which resemble adrenaline quickly relieve asthma for a short time. So they are called relievers. Hydrocortisone comes from the outer part of our adrenal glands, called the cortex. It is also partly an emergency hormone but it works much more slowly, for much longer, and in a completely different way from adrenaline. Medicines which resemble it act slowly make the lining of air tubes in asthma more normal. So your asthma becomes less bad and you are less likely to get asthma attacks. So these steroid medicines are called preventers. There are other asthma preventers , but the steroids are the most powerful. Most people who have asthma should have both of these kinds of medicine. Usually the best way to take them is to breathe them in. This is because you need less that way, and won t have so many side effects. It also works more quickly, important with the adrenaline-like relievers. The third advantage is that the hydrocortisone-like steroid preventers you breathe in can be chosen to be beautifully biodegradable inside the body. They work in the lung, but don t get much chance to give side effects in the rest of your body, because your liver splits them up. There are also other drugs which help asthma. Whilst drugs can remove all your symptoms if you have mild asthma, people with more severe or long-standing asthma don t get nearly such good results. . We do not understand why so many people in westernised countries suffer from allergies, compared to people in less affluent rural parts of the world, though we have some clues. There is however a mass of evidence which proves that asthma is in general an environmentally induced disease. This raises the challenging possibility that we may be able to prevent asthma by altering our environment. Treating asthma by removing the allergic cause can be very successful when the cause is easy to remove, as when the allergic cause is a dust or vapour inhaled only at work. The same is true when the cause is a domestic pet such as a cat or dog, though reluctance to part with a loved pet commonly prevents success. But the commonest cause of asthma is allergy to house dust mites, and getting rid of mites sufficiently to make a big difference to asthma requires a major change in lifestyle and is expensive. There may be future treatments which abolish or diminish the allergy process in the body. . Children may grow out of asthma, but some of these grow back into it later. In people who have lifelong asthma the obstruction to the airways comes to be less completely relieved by drugs. One of the aims of treatment, according to current concepts, is to minimise the inflammation in the lung airways which we believe causes this long-term worsening. . A cause is something without which you would not be asthmatic. A trigger is something which sets off an attack, but which does not make you asthmatic in the first place. You will obviously want to avoid both causes and triggers, but the causes are more serious without them the triggers do no harm. Causes include allergies to house dust mites, cats, dogs, and moulds. It is a mistake to belittle causes like house dust mites or cats by calling them trigger factors. Look up our page on triggers and causes of asthma. . The news is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma if you are expecting a baby. Look up our page on asthma and pregnancy. . If your asthma always seems to get better at weekends or when you go on holiday, one explanation could be that something at work is causing it. Look up our page on occupational asthma. . Usually the problem with making a diagnosis of asthma is making it early enough. But sometimes, usually in people who do have true asthma as well, difficulty in breathing can be caused by abnormal movements of the voice box during breathing. This can mimic a severe asthma attack so closely that a correct diagnosis is difficult. But if it is recognised, treatment will be much more appropriate. You will see information from the centre where it was best described, though the problem had been recognised before that. Of course there are quite a few other illnesses which can mimic asthma, though these are all rather rare compared to asthma. But vocal cord dysfunction has become better understood in recent years, so we have given it a place here. . Some research shows that acid reflux from the stomach, acid stomach juice moving up the wrong way towards the mouth, can make asthma worse. Acid reflux can cause painful heartburn which you can relieve with antacid medicines (medicines which neutralise the acid). It happens mostly in people who are older and overweight. But it can happen in children and in all kinds of people. When researchers put acid into the gullets of people with asthma, it made their asthma worse. People who have asthma get acid reflux more often than people without asthma. This is probably because of the big pressure changes in the chest during breathing in people with asthma. These high pressures could force liquid to travel the wrong way. So asthma sufferers seem to lose out twice over. In the first place it is bad for them to have acid reflux, and in the second place they have acid reflux more often than other people. But this is not the whole story. If acid reflux was really an important cause of asthma worsening, then treatments against acid reflux should make the asthma better. In practice many doctors have found such treatment disappointing. Research continues, but it already continued a long time now. It hard to think we ll be surprised by future research on this. In the meantime, if you have asthma and you also have acid reflux, it could just be that careful treatment of your reflux will make your breathing better. If your asthma is bad and no-one knows why, some doctors would check whether you had reflux by getting an expert to measure the acidity in your gullet. If the result showed acid, they would try to improve your lungs by treating your stomach. If it was me, despite the reservations, i d give it a try. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them? . New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . These two hormones are adrenaline (epinephrine in the usa) and hydrocortisone (a steroid). In practice we use modified forms of these hormones to get fewer side effects. Adrenaline (epinephrine) shoots into our bloodstream when we have a sudden fright or emergency. It is the quick-acting hormone from the middle of the adrenal glands near our kidneys. It makes your pulse race, makes your heart thump, and readies your body for emergency action. In asthma, the medicines which resemble adrenaline quickly relieve asthma for a short time. So they are called relievers. Hydrocortisone comes from the outer part of our adrenal glands, called the cortex. It is also partly an emergency hormone but it works much more slowly, for much longer, and in a completely different way from adrenaline. Medicines which resemble it act slowly make the lining of air tubes in asthma more normal. So your asthma becomes less bad and you are less likely to get asthma attacks. So these steroid medicines are called preventers. There are other asthma preventers , but the steroids are the most powerful. Most people who have asthma should have both of these kinds of medicine. Usually the best way to take them is to breathe them in. This is because you need less that way, and won t have so many side effects. It also works more quickly, important with the adrenaline-like relievers. The third advantage is that the hydrocortisone-like steroid preventers you breathe in can be chosen to be beautifully biodegradable inside the body. They work in the lung, but don t get much chance to give side effects in the rest of your body, because your liver splits them up. There are also other drugs which help asthma. Whilst drugs can remove all your symptoms if you have mild asthma, people with more severe or long-standing asthma don t get nearly such good results. . We do not understand why so many people in westernised countries suffer from allergies, compared to people in less affluent rural parts of the world, though we have some clues. There is however a mass of evidence which proves that asthma is in general an environmentally induced disease. This raises the challenging possibility that we may be able to prevent asthma by altering our environment. Treating asthma by removing the allergic cause can be very successful when the cause is easy to remove, as when the allergic cause is a dust or vapour inhaled only at work. The same is true when the cause is a domestic pet such as a cat or dog, though reluctance to part with a loved pet commonly prevents success. But the commonest cause of asthma is allergy to house dust mites, and getting rid of mites sufficiently to make a big difference to asthma requires a major change in lifestyle and is expensive. There may be future treatments which abolish or diminish the allergy process in the body. . Children may grow out of asthma, but some of these grow back into it later. In people who have lifelong asthma the obstruction to the airways comes to be less completely relieved by drugs. One of the aims of treatment, according to current concepts, is to minimise the inflammation in the lung airways which we believe causes this long-term worsening. . A cause is something without which you would not be asthmatic. A trigger is something which sets off an attack, but which does not make you asthmatic in the first place. You will obviously want to avoid both causes and triggers, but the causes are more serious without them the triggers do no harm. Causes include allergies to house dust mites, cats, dogs, and moulds. It is a mistake to belittle causes like house dust mites or cats by calling them trigger factors. Look up our page on triggers and causes of asthma. . The news is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma if you are expecting a baby. Look up our page on asthma and pregnancy. . If your asthma always seems to get better at weekends or when you go on holiday, one explanation could be that something at work is causing it. Look up our page on occupational asthma. . Usually the problem with making a diagnosis of asthma is making it early enough. But sometimes, usually in people who do have true asthma as well, difficulty in breathing can be caused by abnormal movements of the voice box during breathing. This can mimic a severe asthma attack so closely that a correct diagnosis is difficult. But if it is recognised, treatment will be much more appropriate. You will see information from the centre where it was best described, though the problem had been recognised before that. Of course there are quite a few other illnesses which can mimic asthma, though these are all rather rare compared to asthma. But vocal cord dysfunction has become better understood in recent years, so we have given it a place here. . Some research shows that acid reflux from the stomach, acid stomach juice moving up the wrong way towards the mouth, can make asthma worse. Acid reflux can cause painful heartburn which you can relieve with antacid medicines (medicines which neutralise the acid). It happens mostly in people who are older and overweight. But it can happen in children and in all kinds of people. When researchers put acid into the gullets of people with asthma, it made their asthma worse. People who have asthma get acid reflux more often than people without asthma. This is probably because of the big pressure changes in the chest during breathing in people with asthma. These high pressures could force liquid to travel the wrong way. So asthma sufferers seem to lose out twice over. In the first place it is bad for them to have acid reflux, and in the second place they have acid reflux more often than other people. But this is not the whole story. If acid reflux was really an important cause of asthma worsening, then treatments against acid reflux should make the asthma better. In practice many doctors have found such treatment disappointing. Research continues, but it already continued a long time now. It hard to think we ll be surprised by future research on this. In the meantime, if you have asthma and you also have acid reflux, it could just be that careful treatment of your reflux will make your breathing better. If your asthma is bad and no-one knows why, some doctors would check whether you had reflux by getting an expert to measure the acidity in your gullet. If the result showed acid, they would try to improve your lungs by treating your stomach. If it was me, despite the reservations, i d give it a try. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them? . New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them? . New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them? . New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them? . New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . This is the medical home page of the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara) in leicester and derby, uk. It has a main home page at www. Maara. . Asthma. Most asthma, especially in young people, is a form of allergy. Understanding the allergic causes may help you lead a better life. . Asthma in pregnancy if you are expecting a baby, the news about the safety of your treatments is not just reassuring, there is all the more reason to take extra care of your asthma. Find out why. . Correspondence page on asthma. The correspondence page on food allergy and anaphylaxis has been a success, so we have started one on asthma. . Leukotriene antagonists for asthma singulair (montelukast) and accolate (zafirlukast) are tablet treatments for asthma introduced in the late 1990s. Read more about them on our asthma and allergy news page, which in other respects has not been kept up to date lately. Sorry. . Allergy. A brief and slightly highbrow explanation about allergy. You will find out some fascinating facts about this very common group of conditions. House dust mites. They are the world& ,s most important cause of asthma, and can cause nasty nose problems too. Now there is evidence that the eczema of people who are prone to asthma and hayfever can also be caused by mites. What can you do about them?. New research shows cheap nonwoven plastic bedding covers can be effective in reducing your exposure to mite dust, though the results don t tell us how long these cheaper covers last. A further report shows that mattress covers don t need to cover the bottom of the mattress completely, despite what the experts had been saying. So cheaper ones do the job. . Report suggests house dust mite control does not help asthma. An article in the british medical journal concluded that trials of mite control showed no benefit to patients with asthma. Before embarking on a lot of expense and trouble you will surely want to know what this report had to say and whether it is reliable. Our main house dust mite page has a link to a new page on this, and to the web versions of the original articles. . Anaphylaxis. Life-threatening allergic reactions, usually to foods such as nuts, fish or fruit, or to medicines, seem to be getting commoner. Wasp and bee stings can also cause anaphylaxis, but there is a highly effective treatment for this. If you or your child are unlucky enough to have had an attack, read this page. Does your emergency kit contain the right drug? Which three conditions should be met before you inject adrenaline? Can an adrenaline inhaler be as good as an injection? Read this and more. . Time magazine had a controversial page 1 article entitled don& ,t ban peanuts dated october 5, 1998. As the title implies, it argues against nut bans in schools. . Value of adrenaline (epineprine)_for nut allergy questioned a group of paediatricians is starting a research project aimed at showing that it is not necessary to issue adrenaline injection kits to nearly as many children as now receive them. . Latex allergy. Nurses, other health care workers, children who need a lot of surgical care and others are the most usual victims of allergy to natural rubber latex. You will find links to excellent websites giving further information. There is a section on school and latex allergy in children please contribute your ideas on this via email. Hayfever. Regarded as trivial by some doctors, hayfever can blight your exams, your social life, and your work. If long bouts of sneezing don t make you a dangerous driver, out-of-date treatments could. Yet there are lots of treatments, and the right one, or the right combination, should mean you can do your studying, your exam, or your job unimpaired, and be at your best for that big event in your life which just happens to fall in the summer months. Urticaria, nettlerash, hives. Although brief attacks of nettlerash are often caused by allergy, long-lasting nettlerash is not. In fact finding the cause is impossible for most sufferers. But there are different kinds, and treatment is usually effective as long as you keep taking it. You may however need more than the usual treatment. Cold urticaria and other kinds of urticaria sections added dec 97 and jan 98. Angioedema. Swellings which come and go, often affecting your lips, eyelids, other parts of your mouth or throat, and other parts of the body. This may be caused by allergies, but very often it is not. There are different kinds, and the treatment is not always straightforward. . These web pages contain a fair bit of text (more detail than many other sites) and are light on graphics. Loading should be quick. Many of the pages give answers to questions people often ask us in the clinic. If your question is not answered, e-mail us. You might even find an answer added to the pages quite soon. Your tips (or help if you are a web expert) will be welcome. Disclaimer the information in these pages is for your interest and may prove useful to you. It does not constitute individual medical advice and it does not replace the advice you get from your doctor or doctors or other properly qualified health professional. Remember, the professional on the spot knows more about you or your child, and their knowledge of the topic may be better or more up to date than ours. We are still a long way from the time when a doctor or nurse practitioner can be replaced by information obtained via a computer. These pages have not been reviewed by other doctors and may contain errors. If you find anything on this website which may be relevant to your care, your doctor or other health professional may be willing to discuss it with you. This website does not accept sponsorship from suppliers of allergy products, or carry advertising as such. (declaration of interest i frequently do work for pharmaceutical companies for which i am paid, e. G. Lecturing and clinical trials. I have had travel to conferences funded by various pharmaceutical companies and have been wined and dined by them on these occasions. I also have friends in companies supplying the medical profession and patients. It is impossible to guarantee absence of personal bias, but i do not express opinions i don& ,t rightly or wrongly hold). I do however feel free to mention products in a favourable light if i believe this may be in the interest of people affected by allergy. We write from a british perspective, with attempts to be comprehensible and relevant to users from other countries. British users will have to accept this and may learn from the differences. Medical opinion and practice varies between countries and between doctors, but patients in one country do not necessarily do better than those in another because of national differences. We can learn from each other. . Medisave (uk) ltd is a united kingdom medical nursing supplies web shop which supplies medical items such as peak flow meters, nebulisers, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and a good range of other medical items. If you complete a purchase from them via this link to their site, they will pay a 5 percent commission to the midlands asthma and allergy research association (maara), a registered charity, which supports this website. We believe their prices to you to be highly competitive. . To the number in the counter, you ll know how many visits the site has had, including yours. The counter was reset to zero by the internet service provider late in oct 2002 after reaching 269667 on 8 oct 02. . This website was created by david stern and is maintained by martin stern, e-mail aair@globalnet. Co. Uk dates of updates indicated at the foot of each page. Last update of this page 30 jul 2003, removal of some outdated material. If you can tell me why there is a large blank (background only) area at the foot of this page i& ,d be grateful. . .
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