General Practitioners

• Sinusitis
  Chronic or frequent sinus infections is a common and stubborn problem. The allergist's job in these cases is to assess patients for risk factors. Allergy is a major risk factor for chronic sinusitis, so skin testing will usually be done, especially for indoor allergens such as house dust mites and animal dander. In addition, some patients with chronic sinusitis may have a low level of infection fighting antibodies, and blood tests may be required to diagnose this condition.
• Pediatric Care
  The American Board of Allergy and Immunology is a conjoint board of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics; therefore, we see people of all ages. The specialty of Allergy and Immunology involves the diagnosis and treatment of allergic (atopic) diseases and diseases of the immune system. These include allergic rhinitis (hay fever), sinus infections or sinusitis, asthma, eczema (atopic dermatitis), food allerges, drug reactions, acute and chronic hives, insect sting reactions, severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) and eye symptoms related to allergy, immune system problems including recurrent or unusual infections associated with depressed immunity, and certain autoimmune diseases.
• Pneumonia

Internists

• Internal Medicine

Dermatologists

• Eczema
  Eczema is a chronic skin inflammation that is itchy, red, and scaly. If you close your eyes and run your hand over the rash, it will feel rough. These spots will usually last for days to weeks in the same place. Eczema is common in allergic infants and we call this atopic dermatitis. Food allergy is very common as a cause of atopic dermatitis in children, therefore skin testing may be necessary to figure this out. In kids, we use a plastic multitest device that causes little to no pain and allows us to test 10 different allergens.

Allergists

• Allergies
  Dr. W. Donald Cooke MD FAAAAI is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He did a residency in Internal Medicine at UNM Hospital, and completed fellowship training in allergy and immunology at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY. Dr. Cooke did basic research in clinical immunology as well as patient care at the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pennsylvania, before moving to Durango in 1995. He now does clinical work in pediatric and adult allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology.