Many publications about sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) have been cited in recent years. Sublingual immunotherapy is widely used in Europe as a form of desensitization. Desensitization is a method of making a person less sensitive to allergy triggers (for example pollen, dust mites, cat, dog).
Sublingual Immunotherapy is different from Oral Immunotherapy
Some published reports have interchangeably used the term sublingual immunotherapy and oral immunotherapy (OIT). SLIT is a form of...
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Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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