An alternative to shots – allergy drops
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The person that is being treated for allergies, it can be a real pain to have to go in for allergy shots once a week. But the nice thing is today there is an alternative to allergy shots, and that alternative is allergy drops. These allergy drops are used to help people who have serious allergies.
The nice part about the allergy drugs is that the person takes the allergy drops at home. This is a much better treatment for people suffering from allergies compared to going to the allergist’s office once a week for shots.
What allergy shots consist of is a diluted version of what the patient is allergic to. This ratio is usually 100,000 to 1. There are some cases, such as ear, nose and throat allergist use a dilution rate of about one million to 1. And how the allergy shots work is the patient is injected and then must wait around 30 minutes. They are then checked to make sure that there is no reaction to the injection prior to leaving the doctors office.
In addition to the time involved for leaving work or school on a weekly basis, traveling to the doctor’s office, getting the shot and waiting the half hour and then returning to work or school, there is also the cost of the visit to the office. Even those with health insurance that covers the cost of the allergen injection, most insurance companies require a co-payment by the patient, which adds up quickly with weekly visits.
Allergy Drops Save Time and Money
With the use of sublingual allergy drops, the patient visits the doctor two or three times a year and receives the prescription for the allergy drops. Most insurance plans cover the cost of the drops and patient’s co-pay costs are reduced to the number of visits to the doctor’s office. They also save the time of the weekly visits and the allergy drops are placed under the tongue each week as directed.
In the number of patients using the sublingual allergy drops there have been rare instances when a patient reacts to the drops as they may react to injections, but the advantages far outweigh the need to be in the presence of the doctor when receiving the allergen.
What a lot of allergist do is they start the treatment using both the allergy shots and the allergy drops. They are then compared, and if the allergy drugs are showing a reduction in the allergy symptoms then the patient is advised to use the allergy drops exclusively.
When dealing with children most will choose the allergy drops over the shots. In fact it has been shown that most people will use the allergy drops on a regular basis as compared to getting the allergy shots.
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April 8th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
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Dear Friend,
Please forgive me for posting this here but I was unable to find an email address for you and I wanted to be sure you knew about this. I’m writing to invite to you to join a small group of bloggers who will interview leading experts and advocates in the fields of allergies and asthma: Researcher and Clinician Clifford W. Bassett MD who serves not only as the Medical Director of Allergy and Asthma Care of New York and an attending physician in the Allergy and Immunology Department at the Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, but also on the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Otolaryngology at the State University of New York’s Health Sciences Center in Brooklyn. With him will be Mike Tringale, M.S.M. of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation.
Your blog was of particular interest because of its concentration on allergies. Your questions will reflect things that are important to parents and others who suffer from, or love someone who suffers from allergies.
This news conference is sponsored by Revolution Health, the new health resource website started by AOL co-founder Steve Case, partly because of the difficulties he and his family had with the health care system during his brother’s battle with brain cancer. He wants to make it a bit easier for those who follow by providing tools to support both patient and family. I’m working with them to support the work of bloggers who follow health issues. One way we’re doing that is by conducting these topical briefings, just for the blogger universe. Revolution wants to highlight its ability to aggregate and share critical information on health issues by providing new information and contact with health leaders in relevant disease communities.
The site offers leading content, including of allergies and allergy-related issues from Harvard Health Publications, the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic, and has a population of experts, including those on allergies and asthma , drawn from major academic institutions across the country, including Columbia, Harvard, Cleveland Clinic, the University of California at San Francisco, the University of Southern California, Johns Hopkins, Memorial Sloan Kettering, MD Anderson, and more. We invited one of those experts in allergies, Dr. Bassett, along with a leading advocate to participate in a conference call/news conference to answer blogger questions. We’d like you to join us. The call is informational; you are under no obligation to write about the conversation unless you find it useful.
Here are the details:
WHO: Six to ten Asthma and Allergy bloggers and a major medical figure in the field
WHAT: Conference call/news conference with Allergy and Asthma experts
WHEN Wednesday April 11 7 PM EDT; 4 PM PDT
WHERE: Conference Call – number to be provided
WHY: To answer questions on the issue – clinical, research and other areas
We will also provide audio after the conference if you would like to post a link to that as well.
Please RSVP by email (csamuels@cobblestone-associates.com) when you know if this is an opportunity that interests you.
With best wishes,
Cynthia Samuels for Revolution Health
April 25th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
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