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Treatment Options
Appropriate treatment of patients
with allergy-like nasal symptoms begins with an accurate assessment of
specific IgE antibodies through testing. Management decisions will
differ for the allergic patient and the non-allergic
patient, so
specific IgE testing to help the clinician rule in or rule out an allergic etiology
can help guide treatment.
Therapeutic technologies now available to treat allergy and allergy-related
diseases have become increasingly specific in their mechanism of
action, and demand a comparable increase in the diagnostic specificity.
It’s important to remember that medications designed to target
the allergic process are considered ineffective in patients without
atopy.1 With a negative specific IgE blood test result, the clinician
can avoid prescribing costly non-sedating antihistamines or leukotriene atagonists that will offer no benefit to the non-allergic patient.
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