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Show ffc Pointers Jf For Parents Preventing School Daze? For many high school students, stu-dents, the back to school season sea-son coincides all too well with the hay fever season. Allergic rhinitis, as allergies such as hay fever are called, is estimated esti-mated to cause two million lost school days in the U.S. each year. Just when it's time to be alert and learn, many young people are forced by their allergies to either devote de-vote some of their concentration concentra-tion to controlling their sneezing sneez-ing and coughing, itching, watering eyes and running nose; or resort to an antihistamine antihis-tamine that can make them feel sleepy and mentally dull. Hay lever ana similar allergies aller-gies cause about two million lost school days a year. Fortunately, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved a new prescription pre-scription drug that seems able to control the one without with-out causing the other. In tests, patients were as likely to feel drowsy after taking a placebo as after the new medicine. According to Dr. Frank E. Young, FDA Commissioner, other currently available antihistamines apparently cause drowsiness by affecting the central nervous system; the new medicine, Seldane from Merrell Dow hardly gets into that system at all. It doesn't get to the point where it can cause sleepiness. MJlMJMJl..Wil.'.naqEl8mm |