Wednesday, September 9, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 9
Health Center ready to give
relief to hay fever wheezers
By Patty Pry or
Hay fever season is upon us, and em
ployees at the University Health Center are
starting to see the effects of it.
"This gets to be the busy season," said
Steve Blom, health center administrator.
"It'll be a big problem until the first frost,
in late October.
Hay fever is especially prominent in
Nebraska because of the high pollen count,
said Dr. Ralph Ewert, chief of staff at the
center.
About 30 percent of Americans have
hay fever, said Ewert.
"It's just that the 30 percent in Nebra
ska have it worse," he said.
Hay fever sufferers can be treated at
the health center by either a general clinic
physician or by one of the two doctors in
the allergy clinic, Blom said.
Many students' hay fever problems can
be handled by a prescription from one of
the clinic doctors or by over-the-counter
medications, Ewert said. However, for
more severe or complicated cases, such as
those involving asthma, the clinic physician
will send the patient to the allergy clinic.
Tests are done and injections administered.
The allergy clinic is staffed by two prac
ticing allergists from Lincoln.
While these two doctors are at the
health center only on Wednesdays, Blom
said, there is always a trained person in
the building to give injections if a problem
arises.
"Anytime you inject something into the
body," he said, "there could be compli
cations." Nurses are also available to give injec
tions in the allergy clinic from 10:30
through 11:30 a.m. and 1 through 4:30
p.m. weekdays other than Wednesday,
Blom said.
However, two difficulties often occur
with regard to treatment, said Ewert.
First, he said, many students come to
the clinic for injections of a drug pre
scribed by their own doctor, but without
specific instructions concerning the dosage
or frequency.
Administering medication is very indi
vidualized, he explained, which makes
specific instructions necessary.
Secondly, Ewert said, patients 19 years
of age or younger often fail to bring in the
necessary consent form.
Both problems, he said, involve nume
rous phone calls and attempts to track
down vital information.
Most treatment programs consist of a
series of injections, with gradually in
creased doses, over a period of two to three
years, Ewert said.
The treatment is aimed at attacking the
symptoms, he added, rather than the pro
blem itself.
"There really is no cure for hay fever,"
Ewert said.
UPC to aid Kimball series
The University Program Council will use
money from student fees to support per
formances at Kimball Recital Hall, accor
ding to Campus Activities Program coordi
nator Martin Wood.
Wood said that when a reduction in
Kimball's funding was threatened, the UPC
decided to use some student fee money to
help Kimball.
Ron Bowlin, director of Kimball Reci
tal Hall, said although funding for this
year's performance series is already esta
blished, next year's funding may be
reduced.
Bowlin said the Reagan administration's
budgetary requests will mean a substan
tial reduction in the budget for the Na
tional Endowment for the Arts.
In exchange for the student fee funding
by UPC, a cultural affairs committee now
being formed will give UPC a say in what
performances are chosen, Wood said.
Wood said that applications are being
taken for members of the new committee.
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