venom immunotherapy

A type of allergic desensitization therapy for Pts who are highly susceptible to hymenopteran venom

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These include sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT), venom immunotherapy (VIT), and oral immunotherapy (OIT).

Allergy immunotherapy: Who, what, when ... and how safe? The evidence-based answers to these and other questions will help you to update your knowledge of allergy immunotherapy

But a smaller number use what's known as venom immunotherapy, or VIT, to dramatically reduce the risk of reactions.

Why Insect Stings Could Be Even More Deadly This Summer

Venom immunotherapy has been established as specific treatment for Hymenoptera venom allergy patients in developed countries.

Use of sIgE/T-IgE in Predicting Systemic Reactions: Retrospective Analysis of 54 Honeybee Venom Allergy Cases in North China

Venom immunotherapy or allergy shots markedly reduce the risk of a systemic reaction to re-stings.

A rare case of massive envenomation of honey bees with anaphylaxis

She added: "We provide venom immunotherapy for Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales and some patients travel even further.

HONEY, I'M HOME! City cure for beekeeper's wife allergic to stings

* Patients with stinging insect-triggered anaphylaxis should avoid stinging insects and be assessed for subcutaneous venom immunotherapy (protects up to 90% of adults and 98% of children against anaphylaxis from future stings).

How to prevent and treat an allergic crisis: anaphylaxis, the most serious of the allergic conditions, is a sudden, severe, potentially fatal systemic reaction

There are a few venom immunotherapy centres in Britain where you can be desensitised to wasp venom.

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Clinical and immunologic studies of rapid venom immunotherapy in Hymenopterasensitive patients.

Improved immunotherapy with a rapid allergen vaccination schedule: a study of 137 patients

But available data support the recommendation of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology that venom Immunotherapy be used for at least 3-5 years in all patients with a history of severe systemic honeybee, wasp, or hornet sting reactions and a positive intradermal venom skin test, speakers agreed in a symposium at the AAAAI's annual meeting.

Use Venom Immunotherapy for 3-5 Years

Patients who are severely allergic to the venom of stinging insects can now be treated with venom immunotherapy. For a long time these allergic people could be immunized only with whole body preparations, which was presumed to contain the venom of the specific insect.