Pollen immunotherapy during pregnancy: long-term follow-up of offsprings.

The purpose of this study is to determine the long-term affect of maternal pollen immunotherapy on offsprings who are ten years or older. Records of two allergists were reviewed, identifying 63 consecutive pregnant patients who received allergy injections to pollens. Of these patients, 30 returned questionnaires and 23 qualified for this study.

Pollen studies in a hospital air-conditioned room.

Pollen slides were exposed daily for a week at the height of the ragweed season for 2 successive years. They were placed in a hospital air-conditioned room, an adjacent room which was not air-conditioned, and outdoors on the roof of an office building in downtown Providence, R.I.

Anaphylactic reactions to Hymenoptera stings in asthmatic patients.

We evaluated 587 cases with generalized reactions to stings of Hymenoptera. Eighty of these patients and twenty-eight normal controls had radioallergosorbent tests (RAST) to venoms of honey bee, yellow jacket, hornet, wasp and to phospholipase A. Those patients with systemic reactions had a significantly greater frequency of positive RAST than normal controls (51.

Natural history of allergy to Hymenoptera.

One hundred and nineteen patients who had a generalized reaction to a bee sting and who subsequently had a history of being re-stung before desensitization were studied. The reaction, in these 119 patients was as follows: 44.5% had an improved grade of reaction, 42.

Nasal polyps in asthma and rhinitis. A review of 6,037 patients.

Data from records of patients with asthma and rhinitis in the Rhode Island Hospital Adult Allergy Clinic and in an adult allergy private were reviewed. The frequency of nasal polyps in the total population of 4,986 was 4.2%; in the asthmatic portion of the population the frequency was 6.