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Article: Steroid nasal spray more effective against hay fever.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- April 10, 2002
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2002 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers from the University of Chicago have found that the corticosteroid nasal spray fluticasone propionate (Flonase) is slightly more effective at controlling seasonal allergies than a combination of two popular antiallergy drugs: loratidine (Claritin) and montelukast (Singulair).
The study was presented at the 58th annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (March 2002).
"Both approaches worked well with minimal side effects," said Robert Naclerio, MD, professor of surgery at the University of Chicago and director of the study, "but in our small study the symptom scores were ...