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Central to the reduction of the severity of allergic disease is a decrease in — and preferably the removal of — the offending environmental allergen. Such allergen avoidance is particularly relevant to the successful treatment of allergic asthma. However, statistically significant reductions in such asthma-inducing allergen concentrations have been difficult to accomplish. Until recently, strategies to reduce exposure to environmental allergens have not decreased asthma-related morbidity. In fact, a meta-analysis failed to demonstrate the efficacy of any environmental-control measures in reducing the severity of asthma.¹ Such interventions, however, have usually focused on a single maneuver² — for example, the use . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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