Yes. Sublingual immunotherapy has been used safely during pregnancy for decades. The safety of SLIT in pregnancy has been demonstrated both clinically and in studies. For example, a 6-year study assessing the safety of SLIT during pregnancy (published in the European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in 2012) actually found a [...]
Yes. The immunotherapy practice guidelines note that immunotherapy can be considered in patients with autoimmune or immunodeficiency conditions, and we have used SLIT safely in patients with these conditions in the past. Furthermore, some patients with autoimmune conditions have noted an improvement in their autoimmune condition (psoriasis, thyroid disease, rheumatoid arthritis, etc) [...]
Allergenuity Health has chosen to provide comprehensive sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) because it is the safest and most versatile type of disease-preventing and immune-modifying treatment currently available. Allergy shots (SCIT) and Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) also have benefits, but each has a limited scope and more risk to the patient without enough added benefit [...]
Most patients' experiences with sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) drops is that they are easy to take and without significant side effects. However, like any treatment, there is a potential for adverse effects in certain circumstances, and it is important to be able to recognize them and know what to do. The most common [...]
Yes. "Evidence-based medicine" is a term used in healthcare to describe medical decisions made based on demonstrable scientific proof versus medical decisions made based on theory or expert opinion (which are also important and necessary parts of good healthcare). As of 2013, there had been 77 randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials investigating sublingual [...]
Immunotherapy offers the closest thing we currently have to a cure for allergies, but it is important to realize that it is not an absolute cure. Currently, there is no complete cure for any type of allergy or any other disease or condition that has at least a partially genetic basis. Though this is [...]
Yes. Immunotherapy is currently the only medical intervention that can potentially change your natural course of allergic diseases. Sublingual immunotherapy has been shown to reduce the development of new allergies over time and to prevent or reduce the further progression of allergic diseases in all ages. In young children, a common progression of [...]
In many cases, the answer is "yes, typically for a number of years." The right way to think about this topic is to remember that having an allergic condition or being prone to allergies is really a chronic medical condition, and chronic medical conditions typically require management of some form for a person's [...]
"Immunotherapy" is a process of prevention or treatment of a disease (such as an allergy, autoimmune disorder, or cancer) that involves signaling and modifying the immune system via mechanisms such as suppression, desensitization, stimulation, enhancement, down-regulation, and others. For allergen immunotherapy, desensitizing and/or true tolerance-building effects (these are different) can occur in [...]
Allergenuity Health has chosen to focus our efforts on providing quality, personalized, and comprehensive sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) programs for the many patients that could greatly benefit from having this hard-to-find option available. As such, for now we will not be providing allergy shots or oral immunotherapy services. Rush SLIT will be available [...]
