BRONCHIAL ASTHMA IN PREGNANCY

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To the Editor:— I read the paper entitled Bronchial Asthma as a Complication of Pregnancy by Dr. Bradford Green (The Journal, February, 3, p. 360) and also the communication in Correspondence (April 14, p. 1248) from Dr. R. H. Kampmeier, and would like to comment on Dr. Kampmeier's letter. His contention that allergic manifestations disappear during pregnancy, in contradiction to Dr. Green's experience that there is aggravation of asthma during pregnancy, is also borne out by my experience of an interesting case. A woman, aged 28, had had severe attacks of bronchial asthma for the past eight years. During pregnancy she was free of all symptoms of asthma and this absence of symptoms continued till three weeks post partum. When she was 30, I delivered her of her eighth child. All lived. The pregnancies occurred about one year apart to relieve her of her asthma. All the customary skin testing