EPD Allergy Shot Information

[Vraille Darkfang]

Well,

Thanks to the (Deleted) folks at the FDA. My wife can no longer get her EPD shot.

(as politics isn't allowed, I won't mention anything. Other than to say the EPD allergy shot has proven itself over 20 years in England & proven to be more effective & less deadly than conventional allergy shots).

My wife has SEVERE allergies to many, many different things. But, under EPD treatment she has improved so much she can't IMAGINE going back to the way she was (which was very pathetic).

She's allergic to corn (in 95%+ of all american foods), plus dozens of other airborne & food allergies (pollen, paprika, potatoes, tomatoes, dust mites, etc). The only way she can live a normal life is to continue to recieve the EPD treatment. Really, under EPD she can eat potatoes & tomatoes & can tolerate foods with moderate levels of corn. Wihtout EPD she'll be forced to NEVER go outside when anything is blooming & be forced to go on a highly restrictive diet.

So, we're going to Ontario next week so she can have her shot (we'll be out over $1,000 dollars when it's all said & done).

(all this also goes for my mother-in-law).

I know a lot of ENwolrders are from Canada & England, and many probably suffer from extreme allergies like my wife.

Does anyone in the US, or Mexico, or Canada, or Europe for that matter know anything about doctors who give the EPD shot & where they are located? Esp helpful would be any US folks who have found a loophole to allow imporation of the EPD medicine.

Thanks

 

[Jamdin]

Your wife sounds a lot like my mother, who's allergic to penicillian, corn, eggs, pet dander and almost every plant you can name. My sister and I had to learn how to give her the allergy shots after the local medic clinic started to treat only children. She had been getting her shots at the clinic for ten years and she has severe arthritis so she can't do it herself. She does take a liquid medicine for her food allergies.

 

[Shemeska]

Peanut Gallery Biologist Comments

Seems like the FDA can't win. If they don't approve something, they're hurting people who want a 'cure'. And if they approve something that has even a small amount of bad side effects, then some people accuse them of bending to pressure by evil rich drug manufacturers.

Looking at some of the studies done on EPD, some of them seem promising, but they're small and few in number, and not many recently done. There's also a British study on it for treating hayfever that found it to be no different than a placebo, and a 2003 report by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology found that there was no real backing for its effectiveness in any largescale study. But from what I've seen, the problems with the FDA involve breaches of study protocol and the way the treatment was tested. The results aren't in question perhaps, but given the scrutiny applied on the release of some drugs to the market recently, they're not giving any wiggle room for violations of the groundrules they lay out.

*shrug*

There's apparently another treatment, based on the same techniques, called LDI, but I'm not familiar with it.