What is immunotherapy?
Allergies develop when your immune system overreacts to a substance that’s normally harmless. When you’re exposed to that substance in the future, your body releases chemicals that trigger inflammation and cause allergy symptoms.
Immunotherapy, or biological therapy, treats allergies by decreasing the inflammatory process of the immune system. Immunotherapies are designed to decrease the inflammatory response.
This helps make your immune system less sensitive to your specific allergens. As your immune system stops overreacting, your symptoms significantly improve.
How does immunotherapy work?
The unique approach to immunotherapy at Allergy & Environmental Treatment Center, LLC is to target allergies by way of allergen-specific immunotherapy.
Allergy-specific immunotherapy
(ASIT) has become the gold standard for allergic diseases for many allergens. You may curiously await the new developments, which will further enhance our understanding of allergy mechanisms and improve ASIT for the next generations of patients and physicians.
This form of therapy typically involves the subcutaneous administration of the patient's relevant allergens that is effective in mitigating miserable allergy symptoms.
What allergies are treated with immunotherapy?
The team at Allergy & Environmental Treatment Center, LLC takes a unique and individualized approach to allergy treatment. They may recommend immunotherapy as a suitable treatment for environmental allergies, along with dietary changes based upon food testing results, possibly making environmental changes in the home, drinking clean, filtered water, and nutritional supplments.
In addition to immunotherapy, they may also recommend diagnostic testing and a customized diet plan, depending on the situation.
To learn how immunotherapy can ease your allergy symptoms, call Allergy & Environmental Treatment Center, LLC, or book an appointment online.
