Allergy Diagnostics and Treatment

Immunotherapy Vaccines

More than 20% of the world's population suffers from allergy or allergic asthma and the numbers are rising. Allergic reactions in the eyes and respiratory system are most frequently due to grass or tree or weed pollens, house dust mites or animal danders. In addition, foods may be allergens, as well as various Stinging Insect venoms and Drugs and Occupational allergens such as latex.

For many of these types of allergens, treatment with allergy Vaccines is not only possible but is highly effective, and is also the only means by which the underlying disease mechanism can be modified, rather than just smothering the symptoms of the body's immune reaction to the allergen.

A list of Specialist Allergists in New Zealand is available via the Allergy Society, a patient organisation, at:  www.allergy.org.nz/shop/specialists+and+useful+websites.html