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Rush Immunotherapy is an accelerated form of allergy shots, which often allows a patient to reach a fully effective shot dose in one day. Normally, allergy shots are started once or twice weekly, which can require six months to reach this helpful dose. In the meantime, patients can suffer, and often become tired of driving to the office and waiting 20 minutes after injections—which do not even help yet. Patients therefore often stop allergy shots before reaching an effective dose. During rush immunotherapy, the patient pretreats with medicines for two days to minimize the chance of a reaction. In our office, they receive an allergy shot at 30-minute intervals in the morning, then at hourly intervals in the afternoon. They often reach a protective dose in one day. Although this does not complete the immunotherapy program, it saves about six months of weekly injections.

Case History:
I first performed this procedure more than 20 years ago in St. Louis. A young lady visited quite frantically one day in April. She was to be married in late May, in the middle of grass season. Grass allergies always caused severe sneezing, runny nose, and extremely red watery eyes. She did not want to look like this on her wedding day. She thought allergy shots might help, but another allergist told her the shots would not work that quickly. I explained that a new procedure called "rush immunotherapy" might help, and she became my first patient. She reached a near protective dose by the end of the first day and felt perfect on the biggest day of her life.

 

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Wednesday:

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9:30 am - 12:45 pm

2:30 pm - 5:45 pm

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Wednesday:

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2:30 pm - 5:45 pm

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2:15 pm - 6:15 pm

Thursday:

9:15 am - 12:00 pm

1:15 pm - 5:30 pm

MCKINNEY - Shot Hours

Monday, Wednesday, Friday - Sunday:

Closed

Tuesday:

8:30 am - 12:45 pm

2:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Thursday:

9:30 am - 11:30 am

1:30 pm - 5:00 pm