Desensitization offers safe relief for hay fever, says review
need for medication against allergies when used in carefully selected patients with hay fever. In general, the quality of life of those who had undergone treatment. Studies have not shown long-term consequences of adverse events and no deaths. We conclude that injection immunotherapy is safe and effective treatment option in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis, the auditors said.The studies in the review are recorded, treatments with a length of three days to three years. The patients were shown to have allergies by blood test or a skin-prick test. The use of this treatment is very well accepted by allergists, but met with skepticism the rest of the medical community, said allergist Linda Cox, MD I think it has always been a fact that immunotherapy has been effective
against hay fever. There is very little discussion about this, said Cox, the chairman of the Immunotherapy and Allergy Diagnostics Committee of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology is.Immunotherapy is especially safe when an allergist, who trained to do with the rare cases of side effects of injecting a lot, Cox said. The main risk factor for an adverse reaction to the shots is symptomatic asthma. Side effects of injections include itching of the nose and eyes, facial flushing, itchy throat with cough, dyspnea, urticaria, and moderate. The review reported two cases of anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction in patients treated with injections.
Most adverse reactions that occurred were generally mild, and those who had not responded to injections of
adrenaline, the study said. Between 13 and 38 percent of people with hay fever also suffer from asthma, making them candidates for the blast patterns of allergy, the authors of Cochrane. The auditors did not analyze the cost-effectiveness, since few studies on the costs of treatment were performed. The most important thing is that the treatment has been shown to alter the progression of the allergic reaction, Pages: 1 [2] 3