| Thank you! Patients see improvement in symptoms after 6 months, with some patients reporting improvement as soon as 6 weeks. For most patients, this means they can stop taking their antihistamines. You mentioned inhalers. While there has been connection between allergy immunotherapy and asthma, allergy immunotherapy is not a replacement for your asthma inhaler. If a patient stays on drops for 5 years, they can expect decades of allergy relief after they stop the drops. If the patient stops taking their allergy drops earlier, they will still see a reduction of their allergy symptoms, but it won't last for decades -- it may only last a few months, depending on how long they took the drops. I just saw the European poster. I don't have the details of his treatment, so I can't address why they had to repeat their treatment. For our patients, the goal is lifelong allergy relief as easily as possible. We don't want you to have to repeat your treatment. If you never talk to us after your treatment, that means we did something right. |
It seems that it would be rather difficult for a patient to transition to another providers care on their own given how few doctors are working with SLIT.