Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Pollen Count- Monday April 8th, 2013
  The tree pollen continues to increase – for Monday April 7th, 2013 Total Pollen Count- 231 pollen grains per cubic meter of air sampled Types of Pollen/Mold Spores Identified Elm Maple Oak Birch Hickory Sycamore Pine Cottonwood No mold spores seen  FEL 4-9-2013
April 9, 2013
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Tags: Pollen Counts, Tree Pollen · Posted in: Environment, Pollen Counting, Pollen Counting- Indianapolis
Pollen Counts for Indianapolis- 2013
Last Fall I was curious about comments made in the Indianapolis Star about seasonal allergies. Pollen counts for our area were referred to and I wondered where that information came from. Dr. Frank Wu had done area pollen counts for years. He no longer does the counts. According to the National Allergy Bureau (NAB)- there is [...]
April 7, 2013
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Tags: Pollen Counting Indianapolis, Pollen Counts, Seasonal Allergies · Posted in: Allergies, Environment, Indiana, Nasal Allergy, Pollen Counting, Seasonal Allergies-Pollen Counts
Dichlorophenol Exposure and the Development of Allergy
This article appeared in the December issue of the Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology and has gotten a significant amount of attention. I was interviewed by a local radio station about the article. When you interview for a newspaper or for  radio, you are never sure what the end-product will be. The interviewee is [...]
December 12, 2012
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Tags: Developing Allergy, Developing food allergies, Food Allergies, Pesticides and Allergy · Posted in: Allergies, Article Review, Developing Allergy, Environment, Food Allergies, Interesting articles
Allergy-Problems from a global perspective
The global problem of Allergy I came across a very interesting and powerful editorial that summarized many issues dealing with the worldwide problem of allergy. Allergy is a major health problem-clearly not in everyone and not in the majority of the population. Worldwide allergy affects 10-30% of people. As far as a single chronic clinical [...]
February 2, 2012
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Tags: Role of the allergist, Understanding allergy, What we know and do not know about allergy · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy as a gobal problem, Allergy in Children, Developing Allergy, Environment
Skin Testing for Aeroallergens
Position Paper: Practical guide to skin prick tests in allergy to aeroallergens I was alerted to this article by my partner Dr. Vitalpur. It comes from Allergy (European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology) 2011 . The purpose of the article was to provide ‘pocket guidelines’ from a consensus report regarding the use of allergy skin [...]
November 30, 2011
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Tags: Allergic Rhinitis, Allergy Skin Testing, Article Review, Skin Testing Guidelines · Posted in: Allergies, Allergy in Children, Allergy Testing, Article Review, Asthma, Environment, Interesting articles, Nasal Allergy
House Dust- It is worse than we thought!
All too frequently I hear someone saying that they are allergic to ‘Dust’. Just what is ‘Dust’ and is my ‘Dust’ the same as your ‘Dust’? More importantly is dust, specifically house dust, a harmless nuisance? When I was at Henry Ford Hospital, Dennis Ownby, MD analyzed the house dust material that was used in [...]
June 9, 2010
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Tags: Dust, Our Indoor Environment, The Allergic Environment · Posted in: Allergies, Dust, Environment
