The effect of cortisone on bronchial asthma and hay fever occurring in subjects sensitive to ragweed pollen

Abstract

1. 1. Three patients received injections of cortisone during the season when ragweed pollen, to which they were allergic, was in the air. 2. 2. Each patient experienced prompt relief from the symptoms of bronchial asthma and hay fever occurring as the result of that pollen sensitivity. 3. 3. The symptoms of bronchial asthma were relieved more quickly than were symptoms of hay fever. 4. 4. Within 3 days following the onset of administration of cortisone, only occasional allergic symptoms, which were of a mild and transitory nature, were observed. 5. 5. The relief of symptoms was apparently confined to the period during and immediately following the time when cortisone was being administered.