Allergy treatments include prevention, medication and immunotherapy. The most commonly used form of immunotherapy is allergy shots. Allergy shots may be recommended when avoiding your triggers or taking medications is not effective or is not feasible.
Historically, food allergy has been managed with strict avoidance. Fortunately, over the past decade, increasing evidence suggests that food allergy may be treated by desensitizing the immune system to a specific food. The technique used to do this is food oral immunotherapy (OIT).
Venom allergy is the condition where an individual experiences a potentially dangerous allergic reaction from the sting of an insect, including honey bee, wasp, yellow jacket, yellow hornet, white faced hornet or imported fire ant.
