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Once you decide you're ready for the AllergyEasy program, getting started is simple.
Here's how it works:
1. Get a brief allergy test
With AllergyEasy, there are no painful, drawn-out allergy tests. Our patients can be tested in one of two ways (depending on physician preference). Both involve minimal pain and take just a minute or two to administer.
1. Blood draw. With just one needle stick, a small amount of blood can be drawn for evaluation.
2. Skin-prick test. This feels like a series of small skin scratches on your arm or back. A 10-pronged device is used to penetrate the most superficial layers of skin. This is done six times for a total of 60 pricks. (The skin is not actually broken. No blood involved!)
2. Take your allergy drops home
After testing, you will receive dropper bottles of comprehensive allergy serum designed to protect you from all significant environmental allergens. You can take the serum home and get started with your daily drops. You will squeeze the tiny serum droplets under your tongue where they will be absorbed into your bloodstream.
The serum is all-natural and contains extracts of various dusts, molds, pollens and pet danders mixed into a saline solution. Each or your progressive serum bottles will contain gradually increasing concentrations of these extracts. Your body will learn to tolerate them more easily with each new bottle (a process known as desensitization). To get started with AllergyEasy, click here.
3. Relief at last!
The vast majority of AllergyEasy patients experience marked symptom relief within just three months of starting treatment, but many see progress in just a few weeks. This is a big improvement over traditional allergy shot programs that can take up to two years to realize results.
We recommend that patients continue on the drops for three to five years if they want to fully "re-train" their immune system. After this, some patients are able to remain allergy-free for life without the drops. Others will need to continue the drops on a maintenance dose.
What Is Desensitization?
While over-the-counter or prescription medications may put a temporary stop to allergy symptoms, they are a short-term or "band-aid" fix. The lasting solution is to treat the root of the problem through a process known as desensitization.
Desensitization can be achieved through allergy shots or, more efficiently, through oral allergy drops. Desensitization teaches your body not to overreact to dusts, molds, pets and airborne pollens. Allergies result when your body perceives these otherwise harmless elements as threats and rallies all its defenses against them. Through desensitization, your body is introduced to gradually increasing amounts of the "enemy allergens." Over time, your immune system learns to tolerate and then ignore the allergens, signaling an end to allergy symptoms.
