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| Why then does immunotherapy (at the doctor's office) make things better? I would think my repeated exposures to whatever Swiss allergens is bothering me would actually make it better. | |
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Immunotherapy (in this case suppression immunotherapy, a.k.a. desensitization) usually consists of a carefully calculated increasing exposure of the immune system to the allergen(s) in question in order to make the immune system adjust to the allergen, thus reducing or eliminating an immune response in case the body gets into touch with the allergen in the wild. (Now that was a long sentence....)
The essential thing is the increasing dosage over a long period of time. Recurrent exposure of random periodocity, random intensity and random duration, as occurring in the wild, is not the same. It makes the immune system jump from zero to full throttle and back, without giving it a chance to get used to the allergen.
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| I would like to point out that many people go to switzerland for the clean air to recover from such ailments. I dont think your allergic to swiss nature although if you live outside of the cities you could be getting hay fever | |
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You can get hayfever even in the middle of Chicago. Airborne pollen travels over dozens, often even hundreds of kilometers.