Tag: Immunotherapy
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Can I Prevent an Allergy Shot Reaction?
Risk Factors for Systemic Reactions to Allergen Immunotherapy Alfredo Iglesias-Cadarso; Pilar Hernández-Weigand Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 2011;11(6):579-585. Purpose of review To update safety information regarding allergen-specific immunotherapy (ASIT) in clinical practice and highlight the risk factors associated with the adverse reactions, product and each dose. Recent findings Efforts in recent years have focused on increasing our understanding of…
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What is Available for Milk Allergy?
Sublingual and Oral Immunotherapy Shows Promise for Milk Allergy I’ll summarize the most recent advances in treating milk allergy from the article below. Why is our current therapy not enough? Guess what happens when a patient allergic to milk suffers from accidental ingestion? Anaphylaxis! Why not cure the disease–Johns Hopkins is a long way from Oklahoma,…
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It’s time for my shot!
It’s time for my allergy shot, but I don’t wanna! If getting shots makes you nervous, watch this girl….a real trooper and funny at that: Please review the following information on allergy shots…you’ll save some time and learn a lot. Questions patients ask: 1. How often can I get shots? Once you are at the maintenance…
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