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In your message dated Tuesday 2, July 1996 you wrote : Dear Sue, I think you have summed up the frustration of treating Hay fever. Because the current treatments are of limited benefit patients demand steroid injections(usually because a friend has advise them too) This causes the frustration of not wanting the treatment to have a detrimental effect on their health. One patient told me that I had explained all the problems and it was up to her to make the decision of what type of treatment she should have. What is you opinion? Should we prescribe if the patienst is fully informed about the side effects even if we feel the risks of the treatment might out weigh the risks of the untreated disease.???? Rob In General Practice I find prescribing for this sort of problem > quite anxiety-provoking; > i) patients who consult for this sort of problem seem to me to demand quite high standards - of their health and of their doctor. Unfortunately I have a feeling that most of the remedies prescribed for hay fever are of rather limited benefit. > ii) if the problem is not going to affect general health too much I am > particularly keen that the prescription shouldn't have a detrimental effect > (especially in view of i!) > On reflection perhaps I should have said irritating rather than > anxiety-provoking. I find irritation has quite a detriemntal effect on my work! > > Sue Butler > G.P. and Course Organiser > Pontefract, West Yorkshire > > -- Robert bracchi %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%