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Article: DUST-MITE ALLERGIES PLENTY TO SNEEZE ABOUT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 4, 1999
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Byline: BOB CONDOR Chicago Tribune
Spring is in the air, and don't the 35 million to 50 million Americans with outdoor allergies know it. What these people, and millions of others, may not know is that they are equally allergic to their own households.
Yet even if you are aware of the indoor allergens that trigger sneezing, nasal drip, itchy eyes, congestion, headaches and other miseries, you can't see them because the primary culprits are microscopic dust mites and molds.
``About 70 percent of the people who are positive on skin tests for trees and grass also test positive for dust mites,'' said Dr. G. Wendell Richmond, a physician at Oakbrook ...