TAKING THE STING OUT OF AN ALLERGY

From: The Boston Globe | Date: April 20, 1987| Author: Betsy A. Lehman, Globe Staff | Copyright information
Did you get allergy shots before 1979 to protect against stings from yellow jackets, bees, wasps or hornets?

Chances are they didn't do you any good. The material with which you probably were injected, an extract of crushed whole insect bodies, has since been shown to be entirely ineffective.

And if you were skin-tested for sting allergy before 1979, those results may not be accurate. The same extract was used for skin tests and wasn't good for that, either.

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