Bottles / Vials for Allergy Drops (Under Tongue) Immunotherapy

We have received a number of requests of where one can obtain allergy vials for use in SLIT (sub-lingual immunotherapy) whereby a drop is placed under the tongue to try and achieve allergy cure. This mode of treatment is an alternative to the more traditional allergy shots.

Our office provides both modes of immunotherapy.

Regarding the allergy vials themselves, you can obtain them from Edge Pharmaceuticals. They offer a number of different vial types as shown in the picture. They range in sizes from 15cc to 20cc and provide 40ul to 200ul drops with each dispensation.

Contact Info:

7264 NW 63rd Terrace

Parkland, FL 33067

Phone: 877-580-3343

Fax: 877-581-3343

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Migraine Headaches Associated with Allergies & Response to Allergy Shots

A recent study published this month in the journal Headache reported an association of migraine headaches with allergy severity and response to allergy shots... but only in those less than 45 years of age.

The study suggested that lower "degrees of atopy" (or allergy) were associated with less frequent and disabling migraine headaches in younger subjects while higher degrees were associated with more frequent migraines. The administration of allergy shots was associated with a decreased prevalence, frequency, and disability of migraine headache in younger subjects.

The age cut-off used to described "younger" subjects depending on the measure described was either 40 years or 45 years.

Read the abstract here.

Of course, one must consider the possibility that perhaps what these patients are suffering from is not migraine headaches, but allergy triggered sinus headaches.

Our office provides allergy testing, allergy shots, and allergy drops. We also offer botox injections in the treatment of migraine headaches.

Reference:
Allergy and immunotherapy: are they related to migraine headache? Headache. 2011 Jan;51(1):8-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2010.01792.x. Epub 2010 Nov 4.

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Allergy Shots in Britain Require a LONG Waiting Period Afterwards

I recently heard that one reason why allergy shots are rare in England (and why sublingual "under-the-tongue" drops aka SLIT, are so common) is that British patients are required to wait under observation for anaphylaxis as long as ONE HOUR after each and every injection!!!

In fact, initially the waiting period was as long as TWO HOURS when the British Committee for Safety of Medicines became alarmed with some deaths that followed allergy injections in 1986. Subsequently, the safety committee decreed that these injections could only be administered when full equipment to cope with any emergency was at hand and further required that the patient must remain under supervision in the clinic for two hours after the injection. This had the effect of stopping this method of treatment completely, mainly because of the long waiting period.

That's quite a pity especially when considering that allergy shots were first "invented" in 1911 by two British physicians, Drs. Leonard Noon and John Freeman.

Read more about the history of allergy desensitization in England here.

Of note, our clinic provides allergy testing, allergy shots, and under-the-tongue allergy drops. And no... we do not make patients wait 1 hour after an injection.

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