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The best treatment of allergic disease is to avoid exposure to known allergen. Immunotherapy has
been attempted in IgE-mediated allergic patients who didn’t show any responses to pharmacologic
therapy or couldn’t avoid allergen.
There have been many enthusiastic claims for symptomatic relief of allergic disease by various
forms of hyposensitization, first introduced by Noon and Freeman (1911) in the treatment of hay
fever.
The mechanism of... |