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...clinical immunology at Washington University. "There's no better way to make someone allergic to a cat or to make a cat allergy worse than lying there with a cat pressed up against your face." Even the innocent suffer. One example is Dr. Arthur Torre, a Fairfield, N.J., allergist who occasionally treats cat owners. "I'll go in the room with them," he says, "and I'll start wheezing just from the cat dander they have on their person...
...ants. An arm swollen to twice its normal size is not unusual. Of the 2 million annually whose reactions to stings spread throughout the body, a few hundred thousand will break out in hives and suffer shortness of breath. Yet, according to the estimate of Dr. Martin Valentine, an allergist at Johns Hopkins, half of those people who would have such dangerous reactions are unaware that they are at risk...
Dander and dung can apparently be brought under control -- although in each case the victory may not be worth the trouble. In the midst of experiments with cat dander, allergist Wedner made a serendipitous discovery. "If you wash cats once a month," he says, "then over a period of three to eight months they will stop making Fel d1. In essence, you've created a nonallergenic cat." To nail down his findings, Wedner now has his cat-owning patients experimenting with the technique on their pets...
DIED. Benjamin Feingold, 81, controversial West Coast pediatrician and allergist who believed that the erratic behavior of hyperkinetic children could be modified by removing food additives from their diets; in San Francisco. Feingold, an administrator for 30 years at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco, said that half of the country's estimated 3 million hyperactive children could be helped by his additive-free "Feingold diet...
...Rossall, 31, to Dallas last month to be treated at the Brookhaven Medical Center's Environmental Control Unit. The unit is one of a handful of clinics in the U.S. devoted to a new and controversial branch of medicine, clinical ecology. Specialists in the field, founded by Chicago Allergist Theron Randolph, 74, theorize that some people are especially sensitive to man-made chemicals in the environment, and suffer allergic-type reactions. Says Randolph: "These individuals rapidly become susceptible to a wider range of materials. Sooner or later, in the worst cases, they are disabled by these reactions." What makes...