An alternative to shots - allergy drops
March 29th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
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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