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Show Doctors explain treatments for hay fever By Rembert Benjamin M. D. This is the time of . year when millions of annual hay fever victims begin to suffer because of their susceptibility to the many and varied minute dust and pollen particles which are in high concentration. There is a large percentage of the population which is unfortunately un-fortunately very sensitive to certain plant particles. As a result, these persons are rendered ren-dered very uncomfortable with such typical symptoms as nasal na-sal congestions and excessive secretions from the nose and eyes, and a general irritation of the upper respiratory tract. Hay fever, or allergic rhinitis, rhin-itis, is actually a disease brought on by a reaction of the body to foreign particles capable of inducing a. response largely in the mucus membranes mem-branes of the upper respiratory respira-tory system. . Usually those persons with only mild involvement can be relieved readily with any one of many new anti-histamines. However, for the more severe cases your doctor may find it necessary to prescribe more potent medication, such as hormone preparations and other oth-er stronger drugs. In some instances it may be profitable for the patient to submit to a very extensive skin-reaction -test in order to determine the degree of his allergy to specific substances. From this information the allergy al-lergy specialist may prepare a vaccine, composed of those substances to which the patient pa-tient is found to be very sen- ai uve. When this vaccine is given to the patient by way of multiple mul-tiple intermittent injections a gradual desensitizing , effect is established in that particular particu-lar patient. This person is then better able to withstand the effect of exposure to these irritating particles, and has much less reaction to them. S o m etimes, unfortunately, when all means of control are found to be ineffective, one may have to avoid exposure by resorting to a complete change of climate. Religious atmosphere pervades per-vades fair scene. |