SPECIFIC TREATMENT OF HAY-FEVER DURING THE ATTACK
Published Jan 27, 1923 · W. Vaughan
JAMA
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Abstract
The present treatment of autumnal hay-fever consists in graded prophylactic inoculations of that pollen extract to which the patient is most sensitive, at weekly or more frequent intervals, from the latter part of May until the onset of the pollen season. The inoculations are then discontinued. In a certain percentage of patients so treated, there ensues either complete freedom from hay-fever or great amelioration of symptoms. A not inconsiderable proportion, however, experience little or no improvement, and a few apparently develop more severe attacks than in the years in which they received no prophylactic treatment. In those cases showing little or no improvement, Walker 1 states that pollen extract injections may be continued, but in smaller amounts, given at the same intervals (from five to seven days). He finds that in some cases the symptoms are made worse by the injection of pollen extract during the hay-fever season. MacKenzie 2