Join us to learn how to do the two most remarkable and most advanced immunotherapy techniques available today!
If you have patients in your practice who have seasonal or perennial hay fever, headaches, asthma, eczema, hives, anaphylaxis, irritable bowel, food allergy of any kind, rheumatoid arthritis, hyperactivity, autism or a host of other disorders, you simply cannot miss this one-of-a-kind workshop.
SLIT (Sublingual Immunotherapy) is rapidly becoming the choice of allergists all over the world to treat many types of allergy today. SLIT is an alternative to weekly allergy shots, and avoids the common (and painful) local arm reactions that can occur with regular “allergy shots”. Unlike injection immunotherapy, SLIT cannot elicit severe systemic reactions and has never been reported in the world’s literature to cause mortality. Learn how to treat your patients, using only minimal testing, with simple drops under the tongue to safely and effectively treat many types of allergy.
LDA (short for Low Dose Allergen) immunotherapy is perhaps the most extraordinary form of immunotherapy now available. LDA uses minute doses of mixed allergens with an added enzyme – beta glucuronidase – to actively immunize lymphocytes to eliminate most kinds of allergy and many types of autoimmune disease.
No testing is required with this immunotherapy modality and treatment is administered only once every two months for the first year, and less often as time goes on. It is administered with one to three tiny (1/20 c.c.) intradermal injections on the inner aspect of the forearm. Currently over 70 physicians employ LDA in the USA and Canada, and the number is growing. LDA is by far the most effective treatment for any type of food allergy or sensitivity. Like SLIT, LDA is completely safe.
You will learn how to do both of these state-of-the-art treatments in this workshop, and you will go home and be able to finally treat your most difficult patients. Once your patients learn you are getting so many people well so simply, you absolutely won’t know what you did without it!
Workshop Schedule
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
8:00 - 8:15 am Introduction to Course........................................................................................................Diego Saporta, MD
8:15 - 9:15 am The Immunology of SLIT....................................................................................................Al Barrier, MD
9:15 - 10:00 am IDT/MQT.............................................................................................................................Al Barrier, MD & Diego Saporta, MD
10:00 - 10:30 am Break
10:30
- 11:00 am IDT/MQT (continued).........................................................................................................Al Barrier, MD & Diego Saporta, MD
11:00 - 11:45 am Safety of SLIT.....................................................................................................................Diego Saporta, MD
11:45
- 12:00 pm Q&A
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 pm How to Make a SLIT Treatment Bottle...............................................................................Diego Saporta, MD
2:00 - 2:45 pm Calculating Formulations for Different Treatment Modalities.............................................Al Barrier, MD & Diego Saporta, MD
2:45 - 3:00 pm Q&A
3:00 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 4:00 pm History and Principles of EPD and LDA............................................................................W.A. Shrader, Jr., MD, FAAEM
4:00 - 5:00 pm Administration and Determining Treatment Doses............................................................W.A. Shrader, Jr., MD, FAAEM
5:00 - 5:30 pm LDA Q&A
*Schedule subject to change
