A medication called Grazax appears to reduce allergies to grass pollen--even after patients quit taking the drug. Like allergy shots, Grazax exposes allergy sufferers to small amounts of their allergen daily for several years. In a recent study, researchers found that people who had stopped taking Grazax showed 25 percent fewer hay fever symptoms a year after stopping the medication. The patients also used fewer antihistamines.
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