1 Department of Pediatrics of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and the Pediatric Service of the Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York
An infant with severe, life-threatening respiratory distress due to allergic rhinitis is described. Since this has not been previously reported, a plea is made for the consideration of allergy as a cause of acute nasal obstruction in the newborn after other more common causes, and certain unusual ones reviewed above, have been ruled out.
Submitted on February 19, 1964
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