Journal of Allergy & Therapy

Abstract

Respiratory Allergy in Elderly

Maurizio Marogna

The role of specific immunotherapy (AIT) in elderly allergic patients is still debated. Very few studies specificallyaddressing the efficacy of AIT in the elderly can be found in the medical literature. On the basis of these trials,injection AIT (SCIT) can be considered an effective therapeutic option in otherwise healthy older patients with ashort disease duration whose symptoms cannot be adequately controlled by drug therapies alone. Equally sublingualAIT (SLIT) reduces symptoms, drug consumption and the progression of the disease in both young and elderlyallergic subjects with persistent rhinitis and mild bronchial asthma as long as the disease had started fairly recently