Sublingual Immunotherapy

As with any compounded, complex treatment, there is an extremely large variation in the quality of available treatments and treatment programs. Allergies are extremely prevalent, and patients, physicians, and companies are all searching for ways to treat these allergies. Given the overall safety of sublingual immunotherapy, several companies have started to provide [...]

Quite simply, liquid multi-allergen sublingual immunotherapy training is not part of the typical allergy fellowship training program curriculum in the US. As such, without instruction on and exposure to this treatment during an allergist’s formal training years, few allergists have experience formulating and managing this treatment, nor have they seen first-hand the [...]

Yes. Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) drops can be adjusted to the right dose for each individual patient, making this an extremely safe form of controlled allergen exposure and immunotherapy. This is especially true when the treatment is designed and managed by a physician with appropriate proficiency in properly interpreting allergen testing (such as [...]

The "short answer" is that your initial course of SLIT at Allergenuity Health will typically be designed for 4-5 years, including a build-up phase of 1-3 years and an initial maintenance phase of 1-2 years. That being said, there is significant variation from this due to many factors, and it is very [...]

Improvement in chronic allergen-related symptoms is typically seen well within the first year - as quickly as within the first few months for some individuals, but may take several months or closer to a year in others - so it is important to not be discouraged if quick changes are not seen [...]

Your results on Sublingual Immunotherapy will depend on several main factors, including your personal allergic history, your specific allergens and their unique properties, the complexity of your entire immunologic load, your overall health, lifestyle and dietary exposures, the design of your immunotherapy program, your compliance with your treatment program, the length of [...]

Anyone with known allergies or sensitivities (and related conditions that could include atopic dermatitis/eczema, asthma, hayfever, recurrent sinus infections, swollen itchy eyes, hives, stomach aches, fatigue, headaches, joint inflammation, food allergy reactions, anaphylaxis, etc) would likely benefit in some way from the retraining of their immune system in relation to a more [...]

Taking your sublingual immunotherapy allergy drops is easy. Open your mouth and lift up your tongue, and then fully depress the pump on your bottle to dispense your liquid allergens into your sublingual (under the tongue) space. If done correctly, you will notice a slightly sweet taste. Keep your tongue slightly up and [...]

Briefly, SLIT allergy drops treatment is an off-label use of primarily FDA-approved antigens. This means that FDA regulations and safety standards are in effect for these antigens, but the antigens were originally approved for a different purpose (in this case, allergen skin testing and for environmental allergens, allergy shots). Off-label treatments and [...]

This can be answered in many different ways and at many different levels of detail. Here are 3 different types of answers to this question, depending on what you are looking for: (1) The "short" answer, for those who just want the gist: SLIT treatment engages special, tolerance-promoting immune cells in the [...]