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- From: wsadjw@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem Nienhuys)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Homeopathy
- Message-ID: <6762@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 11:04:31 GMT
- References: <6752@tuegate.tue.nl> <1hac1cINN4uf@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM>
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- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- In article <1hac1cINN4uf@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> greg@antizen.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
- >
- >
- >Though I'm definately NOT an MD or possess anywhere near the education
- >of one, I currently am aware of beta-agonist drugs (Ventolin, Alupent)
- >bronchodilaters (Theophylline) and the corticosteroids.
- >
- >None of these drugs are particularly good for you. I don't want to
- >have to take them, or even continue to have to be an asthmatic.
-
- Asthma isn't good for you either, and by the time you are 50 or 60,
- you might find out that emphysema is even more unpleasant. Ask your
- lung doctor about cromoglycates (like Intal or Lomudal). They reduce
- allergic reactions by blocking the IgE receptors on the mest-cells in
- the lungs.
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- JWN
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