Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-23 | Page 6 | Advice on Your Health

Advice on Your By Morris i Edi Editor Journal American M Medical August marks the beginning o of the giant ragweed pollination In Inthe inthe inthe the United States All AU over the country the hay fever sufferers are beginning to sneeze and to sniff the air all anxiously trying to find out whether or not the season season season sea sea- son has really begun The giant ragweed is abundant In the agricultural areas of the central southern and eastern states Giant ragweed is Infrequent quent or absent from Florida upper New England and ad eastern Canada The fall type of ot hay fever is due chiefly to the pollination of weeds of various kinds It is possible pos to obtain relief for lor some people by desensitizing them with extracts of ragweed pollen Doctors report that as many as 40 per cent of patients obtain full ull relief and th that t they get Jet good results In an additional 30 per cent People who are sensitive to grasses get better results than those who are arc sensitive to rag rag- weed Desensitization must begin long before belore the time when the pollens are profuse in the air It should really begin several months beforehand be be- forehand Some experts In the treatment o of hay fever carry on Injections right through the sea sea- son Many doctors are not much Inclined to give treatment during during dur dur- ing the season and feel that it should be given only in advance of ot the time when the pollens are arc present There are arc still others who believe that desensitization should be carried on continuously in season and out o of season as the only means of or keeping the patient patient patient pa pa- tient less sensitive to ragweed Throughout the country people are arc beginning to understand that ragweed is a nuisance East Orange N. N J. J has a n law Jaw that defines defines de de- de- de fines lines the growth o of ragweed on any public or private property as asa asa a nuisance No state has yet enacted enacted en en- acted a law requiring the destruction destruction de de- of ragweed but some states have laws demanding the destruction of noxious weeds weed in general and Include ragweed In Inthis Inthis this classification In some states notably Illinois the governor wa WM asked by the legislature to designate certain days In Au August M u weed tion days One community p r vided a bounty for every ha tuu of 50 but the i BUG appropriated to pay the b los i iwas was insufficient and was nu ed during the first two d din i ithe the campaign Results out oUI oUt two-day two campaign indicated not much had been i j o In one city almost XO spent to destroy rap yet the air continued to CI laminated by the w withstanding thes these tacks on the cause of f type of hay fever it J oi i endeavored to eliminate U as 3 of oC the ragweed pollens I sible 1 1 I