Tuesday, October 27, 2009

New Home Allergy Tests for Children

Far too many allergy parents know first hand the health and quality of life limitations that their allergies or allergic asthma cause them, and will do whatever is necessary to protect their children from the same allergy future. Regrettably, when allergy parents bring their allergy child in for physician treatment, because cold, flu and allergy symptoms are often similar, a child's physician will typically focus only on cold and flu, leaving allergy as a very distant treatment consideration.

Glenn Toth M.D., FAAFP and Medical Director for DropYourAllergies.com, said: "For far too long, allergies have been considered a nuisance, rather than the lifetime Engine of multiple 'allergy driven' diseases that it is. The truth is, 80% of child asthma is caused by allergies with 90 % of pediatric asthmatics demonstrating allergic asthma symptoms before age 5. GA2LEN, an European Allergy Asthma Consortium has even posed the question: 'Today's Allergy…Tomorrow's (Allergic) Asthma?' Greatly, lending credence that early testing and neutralization of allergy is a cornerstone toward abating allergy progression to allergic asthma and beyond."

Toward this goal, DropYourAllergies.com is committed to assisting allergy parents and their physicians, confront and defuse their child's Allergy March head on. Beginning with a simple, FDA Approved, at-home allergy test, parents can order and test their child to determine if their child sufferers from any of the top ten allergy disease producing allergens that signal the emergence of Allergy March.

As with physician office-based allergy blood testing, the AllergyMarchTopTen.com kit measures specific allergen IgE antibody levels that reflect allergy sensitivity. A few drops of blood are gathered via finger prick or heel stick for infants (9 months or older), then popped into an envelope and mailed to the lab.

"Following test completion, allergy parents will know if their child is at Allergy March risk or not. Such that they and their child's physician can make the informed decision as to whether expanded allergy testing and eventually immunotherapy is the best course of action," said Stephen Hauer, Principal of DropYourAllergies.com. "The last thing a loving mother and father want to learn, is that their child's suffering and eventual irreversible disease status could have been prevented by diagnostic testing and neutralization of allergy disease early on."

Unfortunately, the only traditional, clinically proven treatment that neutralizes allergy disease, termed immunotherapy, involves frequent and inconvenient office visits and involves shots -- something no one likes, especially kids, who need immunotherapy the most. So regardless of clinical efficacy, unfortunately ouch non-compliance prevails and child Allergy March continues and exacerbates unabated.

To overcome this un-friendly "ouch" method of immunotherapy, while still on task to neutralize child allergy, DropYourAllergies.com offers drug-free, custom formulated, self administered allergy oral drops that can be prescribed by your primary physician. As with shots, allergy drops neutralize the child's test identified offending allergens providing similar relief without the frequent, painful shots or troubling side effects.

Hauer said: "As a parent of two, I can't imagine getting Mom's taxi and my kids to a specialist every week …especially for shots! Now get them to take our doctor's prescribed drops at home, after brushing morning and night -- that would not be an issue at all."