How To Treat Insect Allergies
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How To Treat Insect Allergies
Harold Kaiser (Practicing Allergist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School) gives expert video advice on: How are insect allergies treated?
How are insect allergies treated?
Fortunately, it's now possible by the use of venom-specific allergy skin tests to identify whether a patient is at risk life-threatening and future anaphylactic type reactions. If they are, allergy injections can cut down their sensitivity from having a general reaction from about 50% to less than 2%. So, it's really important, especially for someone who works outdoors, like a farmer or golf pro, or simply people who are outside to establish if they've had an allergic reaction to a stinging insect – what the insect was and what can be done about it and are they a candidate for allergy injections to build up their own immunity so they won't have this sort of thing in the future. This is a specialty item. It's the sort of thing that an allergist, or someone who's experienced in the treatment of stinging insect allergies, should deal with.