There are many patients with symptoms suggesting eczema, rhinitis, hay fever, asthma or wheezing.
It suggested in particular that the best evidence of its effectiveness was in relation to conditions with an allergic element, for example asthma, rhinitis and hay fever.
Asthma, rhinitis and eczema have increased in incidence two to threefold over the past 20 years.
Foot-and-mouth disease and atrophic rhinitis cannot be placed in the same category.
There was also a patient who had been treated there for asthma, migraine and rhinitis, from which she recovered.
The symposium concluded that there was a condition called industrial rhinitis.
The report noted that allergies including asthma, rhinitis, eczema, food allergy and drug allergy are becoming increasingly common.
No outbreak of atrophic rhinitis has been confirmed during the last fortnight.
