How is hypersensitivity pneumonitis treated?

How is hypersensitivity pneumonitis treated?

Roy Artal (Pulmonologist and Critical Care Physician) gives expert video advice on: What are the common symptoms of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?; How is hypersensitivity pneumonitis treated? and more...

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is treated first and foremost by taking the affected individual out of the offending environment. That is absolutely the most critical part of the treatment of hypersensitivity pneumonitis, to prevent additional antigenic exposure. Antigen is basically a medical term that means the product that you are responding to or the protein or item in the air that you are responding to. Get the person who is suffering from this condition away from that product or away from that agent. And then in terms of additional treatments, they can include such things as steroids, sometimes other immune-suppressive medications, but obviously those decisions are going to be made in conjunction with the treating pulmonologist.