Other studies have suggested hay fever was less common among children living on farms.
As hay fever medicines are scuttled by generic Claritin, Merck begins advertising a new allergy pill.
There was no increase in asthma or hay fever levels between 1992 and 2000.
Genentech and Novartis, in fact, have already conducted larger-scale studies showing that the drug can reduce hay fever attacks.
On Thursday, she went to the walk-in centre in Peterborough's Thorpe Road and was told to take hay fever tablets.
But if they suffer from mere hay fever, they'll have to try and fail both Claritin and nasal sprays like Flonase.
Experts at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen say levels of asthma, eczema and hay fever have risen significantly since the 1950s.
About 18.6 million adults and 6.7 million children have hay fever, according to 2004 reports by the National Center for Health Statistics.
It found no increase, however, in hay fever or other respiratory allergies.
Its fans will tell you that it relieves a variety of ills--from asthma, hay fever and sinus infections to chronic pain, arthritis, inflammation and migraine.
People with hay fever, asthma and bronchitis relentlessly cough and sneeze.
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Dr. Charles Feldman, an allergist with Columbia University's Department of Pediatrics, said he had an unusually large number of patients complain about hay fever over the winter.
Add in the various over-the-counter remedies for flatulence, constipation, diarrhoea, hay fever and the common cold, and the average American might seem to be a pill-popping hypochondriac.
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As precedent he cites the example of Seldane, an antihistamine developed by Hoechst Marion Roussel (now Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people )) to treat hay fever.
He also hopes to squeeze as much as possible out of existing products such as Remicade for rheumatoid arthritis, which the company sells in Europe, and the hay fever spray, Nasonex.
Parents were asked if in the previous year their child had any kind of food or digestive allergy, any eczema or skin allergy, or any kind of respiratory allergy like hay fever.
Dixon-Woods agrees that better food labeling, more education, and stricter regulation is necessary to reduce misunderstanding and negative attitudes about nut allergies especially in the United States, where peanut-based products are ubiquitous and the word allergy is frequently used to describe non-life-threatening conditions such as hay fever.
Recently, the asthma pill was approved as an allergy medicine, and Merck is betting that it can convince hay fever sufferers to take it instead of antihistamines like Claritin, available cheap and without a prescription from Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ), and Zyrtec, sold with a prescription by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).
They found that atopy a fancy name for allergic reactions including asthma, eczema and hay-fever was significantly more common among those children who had not had measles.
Because Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people) needs you to want Clarinex for your runny nose and hay-fever symptoms--it needs that desperately.
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