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Article: Rethinking the Role of Allergy Shots for Asthma; For Some Children With Top-Notch Medical Care, Injections May Not Be Necessary, Study Suggests
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- February 4, 1997
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Should children with asthma be given allergy shots?
That question was complicated last week after a highly
publicized Johns Hopkins University study found no benefit from the
shots in treating a group of youngsters with moderate to severe
asthma.
"Parents are wondering what to do and people are asking,
`Should I quit these allergy shots?' " said Nancy Sander, president
and founder of the Asthma and Allergy Network/Mothers of Asthmatics
consumer group in Fairfax, who fielded calls from anxious parents
after the study was published in the New England Journal of
Medicine. Her daughter Brooke, 18, has taken the shots to control
her asthma since infancy.
The two-year Hopkins study dealt ...