Dr. Gina Dapul-Hidalgo

So it's two phases, what we call the buildup phase, which is all that going once a week, coming, coming, and then there's the maintenance phase, which is then the once every four weeks phase.

And the idea is once you get to that maintenance dose, the amount that's in that maintenance dose has been calculated so it contains the amount that has been shown to be effective.

No.

So this is something we get asked all the time.

So the idea is that by getting to the maintenance dose, we recommend about a three to five year therapy.

Yes.

And there is no cure for allergies per se, which is why we can't say this is going to cure you.

I'm like, these shots are going to cure me.

And they're like, no.

The closest thing to a cure.

But in general, it's long lasting effect.

And I have had some patients who did this years ago because, right, this has been out for over 100 years.

Some that did this in their like middle elementary school.

They'll come back to me in their 60s and say, oh, Dr. Gina, I want to start shots again because I feel like my symptoms have come back.

So in that case, that was decades ago.

of being asymptomatic to their allergen.

So again, it's very individualized, which is why we can't say, oh, this will cure you.

But really, the percentage that we really tell patients, it's anywhere from 80 to 90% effective for those who start shots.

So there is the potential for something to happen in the sense that you can get a little swelling at the site of where the injection is, right?

Because technically those are the allergens being introduced.