More than 400 million people around the world are affected by allergic rhinitis due to exposure to airborne allergens such as dust, pet dander, dust mites, mould and pollen. About 10-30 per cent of adults and 40 per cent of children globally are estimated to suffer from the condition. A common allergy, if not the most common, in the UAE, it remains underdiagnosed and undertreated here too just as around the globe.
One of the problems of lack of proper treatment is the possibility of allergic rhinitis developing into asthma.
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.
Today s panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, counter-terrorism expert and best-selling author Malcolm Nance, political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post, and Albany Law School professor and Director of the Immigration Law Clinic Sarah Rogerson. We are also joined, for a portion of the program, by Dr. James Fagin, MD, an Immunology & Allergy Specialist in New Hyde Park, New York.
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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.
Today s panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, UAlbany Lecturer in Africana Studies Jennifer Burns, political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post, and counter-terrorism expert and best-selling author, Malcolm Nance.
We are also joined, for a portion of the program, by Dr. James Fagin, MD, an Immunology & Allergy Specialist in New Hyde Park, New York.
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Suffer from you several allergies, this viewer writes, among them cedar trees and rag weed and it s and take weekly allergy shots and i read the newspaper and my nose runs and i sneeze and my eyes tear severely and do you think news print can cause these reaction and if so, other than reading the paper on-line which will be your one-liner, i know you well enough, what are your suggestions. i have to tell you, i m surprised that more people s eyes don t tear when they read the news! it is enough to make you cry. but, you know, the newspaper allergy as such is very rare. i researched this question, and, discussed it with my allergy specialist, colleagues, and it is what is giving you the symptoms, you are right, whoever wrote this letter, it is the news print that is the ear tenant. not the paper itself. so i don t know what the answer