Dr. DeYarman and the staff at DeYarman Allergy & Asthma Clinic
are happy to have the privilege of helping you gain control of your allergy conditions. We are committed to providing personalized
state of the art care to help you achieve your goals. We value our relationship with you and understand the importance of
effective communication and education in delivering quality medical care. Our office is completely computerized to further
facilitate your medical care.
We realize each of you has different problems that require different
solutions. We will listen carefully to your history and review any prior evaluations and then will discuss our initial impression
with you including the different options for evaluation and treatment pertinent to your medical problems and your goals. These
may range from very conservative treatment to more aggressive treatment options. All of our recommendations will be
given to you as a typed summary at each office visit. These will include not only your routine recommendations to manage your
allergic problems but also our recommendations for monitoring changes in your health and appropriate interventions you may
make to regain control if your symptoms do flare. Though we will, of course, see you if your allergies or asthma flare, our
goal is to keep you well with preventative measures and minimize your need for emergent medical care. We would like
to equip you with the educational and medical tools to ultimately manage your allergic problems on your own.
WiFi now available!!!
We've added a WiFi connection in our office. Patients rarely have to wait in our office for appointments
but those on allergy shots do need to wait for 30 minutes after their injection. Now with WiFi you can use your laptop to
cruise around the internet while you wait. You should connect automatically but if not, ask us how to do it. Waiting in medical
offices is no fun at all. Hopefully this will make the time pass quickly. It certainly beats reading old National Geographics
though actually our magazine selection is pretty good.
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Caring for southern Oregon’s
allergic
problems for over 20 years
It's Grass Pollen Season OK everyone, it's here. The tree pollens are gone & the grass pollen
is just starting. Grass pollen counts will get higher & higher, peaking in early to mid June. They will stay high
until after July 4th and will not fall until we have a week or so of 95+ degree heat in July. All of the grasses in Oregon
cross react so if you are allergic to grass you are allergic to grass in the lawn, wild grass in the field, hay, etc. It's
all the same allergy wise. You are not having symptoms from the white cottonwood material drifting through the air like snow.
That's just a visual marker that happens at the same time as grass pollen peaks. The grass pollen is largely invisible other
than when it is just being released from the grass plant. If you have grass pollen allergies you should already
be on your maintenance medications (see your written plan from our office) and should have the contingency medications
for breakthru symptoms available. You should keep your exposure to grass pollen low-this is mostly common sense but see
our information about Pollen Allergies for the basics. If the season does not go smoothly you may want to consider Immunotherapy (Allergy Shots) to prevent allergic symptoms next year. In two months (mid July) the pollen counts will finally drop to more tolerable
levels. Kent DeYarman, MD
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