ANAPHYLAXIA IN HAY FEVER, NETTLE-RASH, AND ASTHMA.

Hay Fever and Hay Asthma

Our knowledge of the pathology of hay fever, and of the neuroses that frequently complicate it, has of late years become more exact and scientific, and consequently the treatment of these affections has been placed on a more rational basis with great advantage to the sufferers. Most cases may be partially, and many completely relieved, while a fair proportion may be altogether cured ; it is imp...

Secretor status in asthma and hay fever.

The observation that ABO agglutinins are present in a wide variety of pollens (Denborough, 1964) and so must commonly be inhaled, and the knowledge that plant agglutinins are antigenic (Mikela, 1957), prompted us to study secretor status in allergic disease of the respiratory tract, namely in asthma and hay fever. The opportunity has been taken to measure the amount of isoagglutinins present in...

Respiratory health: hay fever and asthma

Prevalence of asthma and hay fever in England and Wales.

The results concerned with the prevalence of asthma and hay fever in the large surveys of morbidity in general practice in 1970-1 and 1981-2 were compared. In data standardised for age the prevalence of asthma in men increased from 11.6 to 20.5 people consulting per 1000 population (p less than 0.001) and in women from 8.8 to 15.9 per 1000 population (p less than 0.001). Similar increases were ...

Genetics of asthma and hay fever in Australian twins.

The occurrence of self-reported asthma/wheezing and hay fever among 3,808 pairs of twins from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Twin Registry was examined for evidence of genetic transmission by path analytic methods. The cumulative prevalence of asthma or wheezing was 13.2% and of hay fever, 32%. There were significant correlations in liability to reported disease amo...