If persistent allergies are causing you frustration and affecting your quality of life, it might be time to consider allergy shots or immunotherapy. Allergy shots offer a long-term solution to treat allergies rather than just masking symptoms. Gradually desensitizing your immune system by exposing you to common allergens like pollen, dust mites, pet dander and mold, allergy shots help reduce your body’s allergic reactions over time.
- Clinic visits to have your allergy shots administered
- Customized treatment plans tailored to your unique allergy profile
- Relief for both seasonal and year-round allergy sufferers
- Substantial improvement within the first year
- Lasting allergy relief over time
- Available at all 18 Allergy & ENT Associates locations in Greater Houston
- Each session lasts about 30 minutes
- Flexible scheduling to fit your routine
- Administered by experienced allergy specialists
Experience the Effectiveness
Allergy Shots in Action
- Long-term Relief: Allergy shots are the best choice for long-term, extended relief. Because allergy shots expose you to the allergens that affect your body specifically, repeated exposure via shots desensitizes you, ensuring your reactions lessen over time. Unlike medications that provide temporary relief, allergy shots get to the root of your symptoms.
- Targeted Treatment: Allergy shots are customized to treat your specific allergy symptoms. This personalized approach ensures you’re not being unnecessarily treated for allergens that aren’t affecting your immune system.
- Reduced Medication Dependence: After a full year of allergy shots, it is likely that your body will respond to the allergen exposure and begin to require fewer and fewer treatments. By strengthening your body’s tolerance to certain allergens, you will become less dependent on follow-up shots.
Allergy Drops Vs. Allergy Shots
All cases are unique and can benefit from different treatment paths. Both allergy drops and allergy shots are highly effective, but depending on your individual needs, or level of tolerance to needles, you might have a preference. Discover which path to healing is best for you.
Allergy Shots
Allergy shots are given as an injection in a clinic, typically on a weekly basis. While shots require a commitment to regular office visits, they tend to provide quicker results for many patients. Like allergy drops, allergy shots provide long-term relief from chronic allergies by getting to the root cause of your allergy symptoms.
Allergy Drops
Allergy drops are taken at home under the tongue, meaning there are no needles or frequent office visits. Drops offer long-term relief for environmental allergies from the comfort and convenience of your home. When taken consistently, patients will experience sustained relief from allergy symptoms.
Convenience matters to you …. And us!
Your convenience is important to us! To ensure allergy shots are accessible to all our patients, we have late clinic hours on Thursdays to accommodate even the busiest schedule. Drop-ins are welcome during our established shot hours. Take a look at our hours at your local clinic to determine your shot schedule.
Prepare with Confidence
While side effects in allergy shot patients are rare, some may experience swelling, redness or itching at the injection site, as well as sneezing or a runny nose. It’s crucial to keep a consistent schedule for your shots, typically receiving them every few weeks in the initial phase, and avoid strenuous activity right after your appointment. Keep your EpiPen with you as you receive your allergy shots. Your provider will monitor you in-office for 20 minutes to ensure you are safe to leave.
Treating Your Children
Typically, children as young as five years old can receive allergy shots. For younger children, the decision to start allergy shots depends on the severity of their allergies, their ability to tolerate needles and whether other medications have been effective in the past. Like adult patients, children will be closely monitored to ensure there are no reactions to the injections before they’re cleared to leave the clinic.