Why Can I Get Allergy Shots (Immunotherapy) For Food Allergies?
Why Can’t I Get Allergy Shots (Immunotherapy) For Food Allergies?Answer: The allergy shots that desensitize you to environmental allergens like pollen and pet dander are a form of immunotherapy. You may very well be able to take some form of immunotherapy for food allergies in the future. That immunotherapy will likely not be in the form of shots, and it’s tough to predict exactly when such a treatment will be beyond the experimental phase, however. Immunotherapy refers to any treatment that changes the immune system’s response to some sort of negative antigen. Vaccines are a familiar form of immunotherapy, as are allergy shots and some experimental cancer treatments that use patients’ own cancer cells. In the most common food allergy immunotherapy being studied today, tiny quantities of an allergenic food (fractions of a gram) are given orally, often in the form of drops. The immunotherapy treatments are generall
