Steve,

Agreed. DAN does some interesting research but, when you ask them this
kind of question, they tend to get overcautious. Better to make it a public
query and then decide whether you wish to trust the advice you get or not.

Like the fish nerd says, "whatever happens to you while underwater..."

Best regards,

Carlos Accioly


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From: 	Steve Lindblom
Sent: 	Wednesday, September 17, 1997 12:12 PM
To: 	techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: 	Re: Diving after glaucoma

>Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:58:41 -0500
>To:"dmooney" <dmooney@cy*.ne*>
>From:s_lindblom@co*.co* (Steve Lindblom)
>Subject:Re: Diving after glaucoma
>
>>Address dive mediciney type questions to DAN via the email link on their
>>web page if you want authoritative answers to questions like this.
>
>
>I've never had a bit of luck getting medical info from DAN about prexisting
>conditions - they are too weasily-cautious to share what they know, and always
>end up telling you to "consult your physician" as if there's any physician
>within a 100 miles of most of us who know a damn thing about hyperbaric
>medicine etc.
>A friend once called them to ask if they had any information on what
>decongestants were most suitable for diving, since he had the tail end of a
>cold and had an expensive, non-refundable, dive trip coming up. They told him
>to stay out of the water. He asked on the net and got some navy info on the
>subject, used sudafed, and had no problems. He could understand why DAN might
>not tell him to use sudafed, but not why they couldn't at least refer him to
>the necessary information so he could make up his own mind instead of giving
>him the most useless, cautious, advice possible?
>
>


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