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Article: During pregnancy; allergic rhinitis could pass to child.(Clinical Rounds)
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- Skin & Allergy News
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- June 1, 2007
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SAN DIEGO -- Women who experience symptoms of allergic rhinitis during early pregnancy are more than six times as likely to have children with allergic rhinitis than are women who have no such symptoms, Dr. Miwa Shinohara said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.
The results suggest women should be aggressive in controlling allergic rhinitis symptoms during early pregnancy, with avoidance of allergens being the best means of control, said Dr. Shinohara of the department of pediatrics at Kochi (Japan) University.
The retrospective cohort study involved 400 women with physician-diagnosed allergic rhinitis and ...