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Article: Limitations of studies highlighted: don't throw away dust mite mattress covers yet.(Clinical Rounds)
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- OB GYN News
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- June 1, 2004
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Recent well-publicized studies have suggested that dust mite mattress covers are not effective for improving allergy and asthma.
But before physicians tell their patients to throw away their mattress covers, they may want to consider some of the limitations of these studies, Dr. Theodore M. Freeman said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.
"I have been very uncomfortable with this conclusion" that mattress covers are not helpful, said Dr. Freeman, chairman of the allergy and immunology department at the U.S. Air Force's Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio.
"I certainly haven't ...