Standard teaching of health care professionals for decades in the United States has been that those individuals who have more than rare instances of asthma need one medicine to use daily to prevent symptoms and a second medicine in the form of a bronchodilator inhaler to be available to stop, or rescue from, symptoms. The […]
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Allergies And Climate Change: Where There’s Smoke, There’s Probably Fire
Until this month, I only associated the word ‘bootleg’ with the era of ‘Prohibition’ (of alcohol) during the ‘Roaring Twenties’ (1920s) and with a quarterback play during football games. However, historians and those with allergies and asthma will record and remember this month for the ‘Bootleg Fire’—named for the location in Oregon—Bootleg Spring– that is […]
Allergic Reactions to the Sun: Some Light On The Subject
Earlier this month, a physician whom I’ve known since our high school days called me to ask my thoughts about a chronic bumpy rash on sun-exposed areas of one of his co-workers. Besides quoting the phrase ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ (which, by the way, is attributed to an early 20th century American […]