Hacker News Reader

Sublingual immunotherapy is a customized treatment administered by medical doctors. What do you mean by dangerous?

(I'm not affiliated with https://www.wyndly.com/, but that could be a good place to start for those unfamiliar.)

Dangerous as in: exposure can cause allergies that haven't been there before. Medical treatment with allergens can also cause allergies and therefore shouldn't been done willy-nilly in a prophylactic manner.

Also, suggestions like those usually bring out the quackery in people, with things like "Oh, hayfever? Let's cure it by doing summer holidays on the farm!" and "Oh, peanut allergy? I have a sandwich for you, kid!".

Clearly you have never seen proper immunotherapy (which has been in practice for decades). All patients are prescribed an epi-pen prior to starting treatment. It used to be that all doses were monitored for anaphylactic reactions but that is now clinic-dependent.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com