Stress and Anxiety Make Your Allergies Worse Aug 20, 2008
"If you don't have an allergy, you're just going to see a little bit of redness temporarily and that'll be the end of it. But if you're a highly allergic person, you're going to get something called a wheal," says Ronald Glaser, Ph ... A wheal looks like a red puffy area and it tells doctors you're allergic. (W-USA News, DC)
Goward attack: mums betrayed Mar 23, 2008
" Megan MEGAN WHEAL gladly accepted a 14-week allowance to stay home longer with three-week-old baby son Sam. The 31-year-old first-time mother is using the Paid Parental Leave allowance of $NZ391.28 ($344) a week (pre-tax) to cover the mortgage for three months. She will return to work when Sam is eight months old and does not believe the PPL is overly generous. "If it was longer I would have taken 12 months off. On the other hand, if there was nothing I would probably have gone back at three... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Full Story Aug 3, 2007
The women behind the wheal was headed south on the Turnpike when another car struck her vehicle forcing it on the embankment and straight into a canal. A group of good Samaritans risking their lives somehow managing to pull the driver out of her sinking vehicle and onto shore. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Food Allergies in Your Kids Mar 16, 2007
"We may give the child a food challenge, starting off with different quantities of food for a reaction, and if they pass that test, we do skin testing for a small wheal (raised skin rash) or a blood test if the rash is 10 millimeters," says McGeady. Although there is no cure for food allergies and no true prophylactic drugs, Dr. Sheldon Spector, an allergist and medical professor at UCLA, says that Xolair, a drug approved to treat allergic asthma is sometimes used on an off-label basis for food... (Fox News)
