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Common allergy medication’s risks outweigh its usefulness, experts say

Common allergy medication’s risks outweigh its usefulness, experts say

Facebook Tweet Email Link Dr. Anna Wolfson says she sees dangerous misuse of the allergy medication diphenhydramine in her clinic every day. “If someone has an allergic reaction to a food, people will say, ‘Don’t worry, I have diphenhydramine in my purse,’ and I would say, ‘Really, epinephrine is the first-line treatment for food allergies,’” said Wolfson, an allergist at …

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Diagnostic dilemma: Rare semen allergy may have caused woman’s infertility

Diagnostic dilemma: Rare semen allergy may have caused woman’s infertility

The patient: A 29-year-old woman in Lithuania The symptoms: The woman had been trying to conceive with her male partner but had not become pregnant. Two rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF) also failed to produce a pregnancy, but gynecological exams did not find any underlying causes for why she was unable to become pregnant. (When the patient’s doctors described …

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