Why choose allergen immunotherapy?
Unlike medications that only treat symptoms, allergy shots address the root cause of your allergies. Benefits include:
-Reduced sensitivity to allergens.
-Long-term symptom relief, even after treatment ends.
-Better quality of life with fewer allergy-related disruptions.
When you develop an allergy, your body’s immune system overreacts to harmless substances, such as house dust mites or olive pollen. The goal of immunotherapy is to change your immune system so that this overreaction is lessened or even corrected. Immunotherapy works by exposing you to very small, but increasing amounts of the exact allergens that cause your allergies. This is called inducing tolerance.
Allergen immunotherapy, commonly known as “allergy vaccines” remains the only treatment available today capable of modifying the progression of the disease.
Over several months, your immune system begins to develop a tolerance to these allergens, which then improves your eye and nasal allergies. It has also been shown to prevent the progression of the disease, in this case with asthma. This process can take months or years. The goal is to reduce symptoms while reducing dependence on medications.
Allergy symptoms won’t disappear overnight. Typically, they usually improve during the first year of treatment, but the most noticeable improvement usually occurs during the second year. By the third year, most people no longer have adverse reactions to allergens.
In our clinic, we have protocols tailored to each patient to ensure safety and effectiveness. Discover how this treatment can transform your quality of life when faced with respiratory allergies.
Immunotherapy is one of the tools allergists have at their disposal to change your immune system (for the better!).
