Treating Allergies: What are the Options?
Tuesday August 28, 2007
The first step in the treatment of allergies is identifying what you're allergic to. This is typically accomplished through skin testing. Once your triggers are known, there are essentially three ways of treating the symptoms: Avoidance, medication and allergy shots.
First, is the avoidance of allergens. If you can successfully avoid what you are allergic to, then you can prevent allergy symptoms in an inexpensive manner without side effects. However, avoiding your triggers may be easier said than done.
Second, medications can be used to treat allergy symptoms. While most people feel better with medications, these have side effects, are expensive, need to be taken in order to work, and have no long-lasting benefit.
Lastly, allergy shots can be used to treat allergy symptoms. Allergy shots are the only therapy that can actually fix the underlying problem of allergies and potentially cure the symptoms.
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