Letter: Letters: Relief in pregnancy

From OLIVE FORD

It is not uncommon for women to have respite from asthma during pregnancy
when progesterone levels are high. Many diseases are worse, or only occur,
in the premenstruum and disappear during pregnancy.

This is what led Raymond Green and Katharina Dalton to treat premenstrual
conditions of all kinds with natural progesterone. Many women, not just
those with premenstrual asthma, now have cause to be grateful to their pioneering
work on the treatment of premenstrual syndrome.

Victor Gavin would find it interesting and useful to chart the occurrence
of his wife’s asthma attacks. If they are usually in the fortnight before
she has her period and are usually absent in the seven days or so after
it, then she would probably benefit from progesterone therapy. Progesterone
is a naturally occurring steroid as he suspected and there are receptors
for it in the respiratory system.

A suitable chart and further information can be obtained by sending
a stamped addressed envelope to the National Association for Premenstrual
Syndrome, PO Box 72, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1XQ.

Olive Ford South Petherton, Somerset