Treatment
There is a lot to say about the treatment options for allergies. The most important is that you should avoid the substance or substances to which you are allergic wherever possible. This is more easily done with one allergy than with another. You can avoid strawberries or shrimps altogether, but airborne grass pollen is a different story. As far as the treatment of allergic symptoms is concerned, your doctor can be of great help. He or she can identify the type of allergy and determine the treatment that is best suited for your situation and complaints.
Attention is increasingly shifting to treatment options that focus on the causes of allergies rather than their symptoms. After all, a successful treatment of the cause obviates the need to treat the symptoms. In this chapter, you can read more about what is referred to as causal therapy. Hyposensitisation does not involve any attempts to stop or suppress an allergic reaction, but tries to arm the body against the allergen in question. Causal therapy is applied increasingly frequently, and this trend is expected to continue in the coming years.
