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A pre-seasonal birch/hazel sublingual immunotherapy can improve the outcome of grass pollen injective treatment in bisensitized individuals. A case-referent, two-year controlled study.

BACKGROUND: The study tests the hypothesis of a reduction of priming due to tree allergy in patients sensitised to both birch/hazel and grass pollen undergoing an associated preseasonal Sublingual/Injective immunotherapy. METHODS: 36 out of 49 bisensitized candidates were pair-matched into 18 case-referent couples. During two years all patients were administered preseasonal grass-SIT and one patient in each couple received also birch/hazel-SLIT. Diary cards were fulfilled for three consecutive grass pollen seasons. Specific Nasal Provocation Test (NPT) for grass and aspecific bronchial challenge were done; sera were analyzed for specific IgE and IgG. RESULTS: During the peak of the grass pollen season both groups showed a significant improvement in total symptom-score. Conjunctivitis and cough improved significantly more in patients with associated therapies. While antihistamine score decreased significantly in both groups, antiasthmatics did only in the SLIT-SIT group. The follow-up documented a significant increase in grass- and birch-specific IgG and a decrease in grass-specific IgE. Grass-NPT threshold was clearly higher in SLIT-SIT-group (p = 0.01) and only in this group PD20 methacholine improved significantly (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Combined birch/hazel-SLIT and grass-SIT are safe and improve clinical outcomes of SIT alone in young bisensitized patients. Priming reduction is supported by specific NPT and bronchial hyperresponsiveness.[1]

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