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Sweet Allergy Relief in Multiple Shots

If you are allergic to bee stings, a little bee sting may be just what you need. This sort of logic sounds counterintuitive, but this is the premise behind allergy shots, or immunotherapy. The shots introduce trace amounts of the allergen into the blood and the body responds by creating antibodies to the allergic substance, thus building immunity against the allergen. Usually reserved for more serious allergy cases, or when allergy medications fail, allergy shots can work well for hay fever, animal dander, or bee stings. Below, two allergy experts offer a basic introduction to the benefits of immunotherapy.

How do these shots work?
BETH CORN, MD: First, a person will have skin testing done to determine what they're allergic to, and then an extract is prepared that includes that substance (or allergen). This might, for example, include tree pollen, or dust mites, or cat dander. Then the person receives weekly injections of the substance that they're allergic to. And each injection is a little bit more potent than the last. Eventually the person becomes desensitized to that allergen. After about six to eight months, one gets up to maintenance therapy and then comes in on a monthly basis to maintain this immunity.

It's effective at least 80% of the time to help reduce symptoms and help reduce the need for medications.

Are there some people who should not get allergy shots?
BETH CORN, MD: Yes. Very severe asthmatics would probably not be candidates for allergy shots. The most common side effect is a local reaction to the allergy shot at the site of injection. So if someone receives an allergy shot in their arm, for example, they might get a red raised area. In the worst-case scenario, someone could actually become very short of breath and have an anaphylactic reaction (a full-body reaction) to an allergy shot, which can be reversed with adrenaline. This is very uncommon.

Anyone who receives an allergy shot has to sit in the allergist's office for thirty minutes so that any reactions can be monitored. If they do have a bad reaction, then it's dealt with immediately.

GILLIAN SHEPARD, MD: Almost anybody can get allergy shots, as long as they've tried reasonable medications first and allergy shots seem to be appropriate for them.

We don't start allergy shots if somebody is pregnant, but many patients who are getting allergy shots on a regular basis become pregnant during the course of treatment. When that happens, what we do is whatever dose they're getting, we just repeat that dose once a month until they deliver the baby. We don't increase the dose. There is no risk associated with the allergy shot, but if for some reason the patient should have a reaction to the shot, we would need to give her epinephrine, or adrenaline. If you give epinephrine to a woman who's pregnant, it will affect the uterus, usually contracting it. And there's a very, very small chance of a miscarriage. So that's the only reason that we don't increase the dose in pregnant women.

We also generally don't give them if the patient is very elderly. They may be better managed by medication.

The treatment is very safe, and has been used for more than fifty years now. The materials are always tuned up and changing, and it's extremely effective and safe.