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Article: For [pounds sterling]2 per day, the hay fever cure that's not to be sneezed at.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 12, 2006
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Byline: FIONA MACRAE
TABLET costing [pounds sterling]2 a day which could cure hay fever will go on sale next month.
Rather than just suppressing symptoms such as a runny nose and itchy, watering eyes, Grazax pills treat the pollen allergy which is their underlying cause.
If the treatment is made available on the Health Service, it could drastically improve the lives of the million Britons with severe hay fever.
Medicines already on the market, such as antihistamine tablets and steroids, can provide relief but are short-acting and do little to help the worst affected.
The tablets work in the same way to immunotherapy, in which ...