Show r Daily Health alth Service St t lla Hay Fever Victims Should Remain Indoors Indoor I 1 By By ByR DR R MORRIS i R s F N I Editor Journal of the American Medical I Association and of the Health Magazine 1 In 1929 MIss MIs MarjorIe Hopkins of the department of medicine in the New York Postgraduate Medical School and Hospital made a study of the po possible effect of dally daily fluctuations in humidity and temperatures on the degree of symptoms in pa patients patients patients pa- pa with hay fever due to Uon tion to the pollens of A similar stat statement ment has now been prepared covering coring conditions In 1930 and a chart has been worked out Inthe in indicating indicating In- In the relationship between the theS the'S S 'S symptoms the pollens and ansi the hu hu- hu It is found that the humidity humidity humid humid- It ity curve is proportional to the torn tom curve and tho the pollen curve Usually when the tho hun humidity dlly curve cune Is down the symptom curve and the pollen curve are up and vice Ice er versa a Whenever the rain falls th the amount of pollens in the air is less and the s symptoms are also lest less The charts indicate that an inc increased 1 amount of pollens in the air fre- fre precedes by 24 4 hours an elevation ele ele- dc- dc in the curve CW indicating the severity of the t symptoms On da dav days s 's when there was as a high humidity from rain and a low tow temperature there were less pollens in the air and ana therefore less lesz symptoms On days when there was a low humidity no norain norain rain fall faU and a relatively high t temperature tem teni- 1 the pollens were profuse in the air and all of ot the patient s mf much more severely These experiments prove not o oni onh the direct relationship between ten teu of pollens and the ant toms of hay fever but offer alz also was team m practical advice to the sufferers WIth wih this disease Obviously the pe who suffers with hay fever tr try so far as possible to stay lay In lT is doors and to prevent the inhalation of or pollens on days that arc are dry a H hot On the other hand the Uil can be much more comfortable out doors on days when there is or o rainfall and a high humidity or course the best possible advice ad is 15 for tor the person with sensitivity to raw ranted d t to 14 get away from the district where ragweed Is profuse at the time wh ho he- suffers m most t with his hay fey fever em He ma may also alo try the effects of d detta j n- n situation |