Hay fever is a long-term condition that can impact upon your daily life by impairing concentration at work or school, by preventing sleep, or by making socialising awkward or unpleasant.
Allergen avoidance - that is, trying to avoid contact with the allergen that triggers your allergic reaction – has the advantage of involving no medical treatment. However, it is much more difficult to avoid airborne allergens, such as grass pollen.
Antihistamines and nasal corticosteroids - symptomatic therapies - have traditionally been cornerstones in the management of allergic rhinitis. Allergic rhinitis has been primarily managed from a symptom relief perspective, i.e. reducing or stopping symptoms with little to no attention on the need to treat the underlying cause of the disease.
Despite receiving symptomatic therapies, however millions of sufferers experience continual symptoms during the pollen season, limiting their activities and often resulting in a poor quality of life.
Allergy vaccination is a unique approach to allergy management as it treats the underlying cause of the allergy, provides sustained symptom prevention and has been shown to reduce the risk of developing asthma.