Immunotherapy for grass pollenosis with allpyral allergen extracts. Improved results by objective control of treatment requirements.

Abstract

Nasal provocation testing using a measured dose of dry grass pollen has been used as a method of controlling the amount of injection treatment required to achieve decreased sensitivity to grass pollen. This could seldom be shown at the usual top dose of 10,000 P.N.U., but by repeating the top dose until the reaction was negative, complete freedom from pollenosis was achieved in most cases. Strict criteria for assessment of results were used. Conventional dosage regimens produced only 27 percent excellent results, but 94 percent of those patients who became demonstrably nasal test-negative were completely or almost completely free from symptoms in the pollen season.