The Purpose of This Course

This course is focused on diving into the disease-modifying treatments for allergies. Disease-modifying means that the treatment addresses the root cause of the disease. To explain this we will use a leaky roof analogy.

Your body is like a house. You have a roof and floors. When the roof gets a hole in it, a puddle can form on the floor from the rain. If nothing is done, the puddle continues to grow. The puddle over time causes damage to the floor. The puddle can be wiped up routinely to limit damage, but as long as the roof has a hole, a new puddle will form.

Allergy is equivalent to a hole in the roof and allergen exposure is the rainstorm. If the rainstorm never comes, a puddle won’t form. However, when a rainstorm does come, there will be a puddle.

Disease prevention is like a construction crew that properly builds the roof.

Disease management is like a cleaning crew that can clean up puddles.

Disease treatment is like a repair crew that can fix the roof.

In the allergy management course, we detailed medicines that treat allergy symptoms such as antihistamines, steroids, or epinephrine shots. These medicines are like a cleaning crew that wipes up the floor. They are likely to provide relief from symptoms, but they do not stop the puddles from forming when the next rainstorm hits.

In this course, we will detail promising allergy treatments that work to fix the roof so that you can stop hiring cleaning crews.