How are allergies treated?

How are allergies treated?

Harold Kaiser (Practicing Allergist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School) gives expert video advice on: What kind of medications are used to treat allergies?; Does using an EpiPen hurt? and more...

After we've talked about avoiding things, and the problem is still ongoing, we talk about treatment. There are two kinds of treatment for allergic disease. First, there are drug treatments and there are a whole bunch of drugs that are really terrific and helpful. And then there are allergy injections, or immunotherapy, for those patients who need more help than the drug treatment and the avoidance provides. So, again, three general categories for treatment for allergic disease: avoidance, medications, and immunotherapy or allergy injections. That covers most treatments.