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Article: Going all-out to stop the runny nose
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 2, 1992
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Like many of today's parents, Charles Myer III, M.D., remembers
when "the kid with the runny nose was just a part of childhood."
Not any more, thanks to new technology and the work of Myer and
his colleagues in pediatric otolaryngtology - the branch of medicine
treating kids' ear, nose and throat troubles.
Nowadays, stopping a chronic runny nose may require one or more
antibiotics, treatment for allergies, even delicate endoscopic
surgery, said Myer, who is associate professor of otolaryngtology at
the University of Cincinnati and a spokesman for the American Academy
of Pediatrics.
One thing that hasn't changed, however, is a doctor's initial