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Article: Sublingual immunotherapy eases symptoms of dust mite allergy.(Pulmonary Medicine)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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SAN ANTONIO -- Adults with dust mite allergy who are using standard allergy medications benefit from the addition of sublingual immunotherapy, according to Italian researchers.
"The clinical efficacy of sublingual immunotherapy has been previously established in pollen, but not dust mite allergy," said lead author Carlo Lombardi, M.D., who presented his research at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.
Although the effect of sublingual immunotherapy is relatively easy to assess in pollen allergy, which has a fixed, seasonal occurrence, its effect on year-round dust mite allergy has been more difficult to assess, ...