Authors: Louis Tuft
Publish Date: 1980/10/10
Volume: 244, Issue: 15, Pages: 1672-1673
Abstract
To the Editor— I would like to voice my objection to the statement by Howard S Rubenstein MD 243793 1980 in the article Allergists Who Alarm the Public that some allergists tell their patients If you dont get allergy shots your hay fever will turn into asthma and that good epidemiologic and clinical studies proved this to be false These statements will be refuted by the clinical experience of numerous allergists as well as that of myself I have treated hundreds of hay fever patients over a period of more than 50 years and found that immunotherapy definitely prevents recurrence of the seasonal asthma even if the hay fever may not be completely relieved and lessens the possibility of their experiencing perennial asthma1 This was also verified in my study to be reported soon2 giving the results of ragweed immunotherapy in 105 patients 20 of whom had seasonal
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