Dr. Gina Dapul-Hidalgo

But another potential reaction can be what we call a systemic or anaphylactic reaction, where it's whole body reaction, you know, from hives, trouble breathing, nausea, vomiting, swelling, which is very, very rare if it's, again, administered safely.

But all of these side effects are typically mitigated because you are usually observed for a certain period of time.

And I had to do that four times in a row.

Yes, exactly.

Exactly.

So there's an observation period to make sure that these reactions don't happen.

And of course, wherever you are getting the allergy shots, there's usually trained staff.

So if something were to happen again, very, very rarely, we're able to administer the proper treatment to reverse it.

So, yes, actually, the mechanism is the same, but the treatment is potentially different depending on what the allergen is.

So there's no allergy shots for foods.

That is not yet available.

But there is therapy that's called oral immunotherapy where it's giving you increasing doses of the food similar to how we talked about with allergy shots.

But it's the food that you are actually getting increasing doses of orally.

So some allergists practice this.

Yes.

So it's exactly what you're saying, which is we didn't have it right.

Right?

So it was like 2008-ish.

She was born in 2008.

Yes.