I have a ton of allergies, antihistamines don’t work for me at all, so I asked my doctor to prescribe me actual medicine, she said that the antihistamines is all there is, with immunotherapy showing very little success rates and only fitting better for specific allergens.
I am shocked – it’s the 21st century, why can’t we cure allergies? Or at least have a medicine that would completely remove the symptoms?
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There is, in theory.
Total body irradiation and bone marrow transplant.
The problem is that the treatment itself is extremely invasive and has high risk of complications such as thyroid and blood cancers, there are much more serious diseases which require the same therapy and therefore also a donation, and you will need to be on immunosupressants for the rest of your life.
Which is likely to be shorter due to eventual host vs graft syndrome.
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