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What is Advanced Allergy Therapeutics?

Advanced Allergy Therapeutics (AAT) merges 21st-century science with 3,000-year-old traditional acupuncture and modern chiropractic principles. It combines digital signals that mimic allergens or offending agents with acupressure to retrain the body’s response to them so that the body no longer perceives those substances as threats and overreacts.

How Does Advanced Allergy Therapeutics Work?

An allergy is a specific type of sensitivity that causes the body’s immune system to overreact to a harmless substance. That overreaction affects other organ systems, resulting in symptoms. Sensitivities that are not allergies (sometimes called intolerances) also trigger an overreaction in the body, but not by the immune system. With both sensitivities and allergies, symptoms typically stem from the affected organ system. Advanced Allergy Therapeutics does not treat the immune system — it targets the affected organ systems.

During AAT, the practitioner introduces a subtle digital representation of an allergen or offending agent to the patient. At the same time, the practitioner applies gentle pressure to points corresponding to the organ systems stressed by the patient’s exposure to the allergen or offending agent. The goal is to retrain the body’s perception of the allergen or offending agent so that it no longer considers it a threat, thereby preventing symptoms from developing.

How Should You Prepare for Advanced Allergy Therapeutics?

Please do not smoke or wear perfume or fragrances before coming into AIM for Wellbeing. This is a courtesy to other patients who may be sensitive to those substances. Please bring any allergy tests from your other physicians to the initial session. Allergy medications will not affect the treatment, so you may continue taking them. Do not stop taking any medication that has been prescribed by a medical doctor without his or her authorization. Patients with other treatments (massage, chiropractic care, acupuncture, etc.) scheduled on the same day as AAT should schedule them before AAT, if possible. If you are experiencing an acute stage of illness, including an elevated temperature, you should contact AIM for Wellbeing to reschedule your appointment. 

What Should You Expect from Advanced Allergy Therapeutics?

Many cases respond quickly to Advanced Allergy Therapeutics, achieving long-term results within the first few treatments. Some patients require more treatments than others to achieve the same results. We cannot guarantee that AAT will work. The first session takes approximately 30 minutes and includes an assessment and one treatment. Follow-up sessions take about 15 minutes and include one treatment. After treatment, you should avoid the substance for which you were treated for two hours, if possible. If you cannot avoid that substance for two hours, we recommend avoiding excessive contact with it until the following day.

What Conditions Does Advanced Allergy Therapeutics Treat?

AAT can help people living with allergies and sensitivities relieve their symptoms. Here are a few of the organ systems and symptoms that allergies and sensitivities can cause and that AAT can relieve: 

Digestive System. Symptoms may include reflux, heartburn, abdominal and intestinal pain, cramping, gas, bloating, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting.

Respiratory System. Symptoms may include sneezing, congestion, runny nose, wheezing, shortness of breath, coughs, postnasal drip, skin conditions, rashes, and itchy or watery eyes. Pollens, dust, food allergy, chemicals, animals (including dog and cat dander and bird feathers), airborne substances, and contactants can cause reactions.

Integumentary System. Symptoms may include red, itchy, or scaly skin, rashes, blisters with oozing and crusting, dry leathery patches of skin, or hives. Food, plants, contactants, and chemicals are the primary drivers of skin reactions.

Multiple Systems. Allergies and sensitivities can affect multiple organ systems at once, resulting in headaches, migraines, irritability, hyperactivity, mood swings, fatigue, tachycardia, or inflammation.

How Many Advanced Allergy Therapeutics Treatments Will You Need?

The number of sessions you will need depends on how many allergies or sensitivities you have. For example, a patient who reacts to 5 substance families (dairy, wheat, corn, animal dander, and pollen) may require between 5 and 12 sessions to relieve symptoms and prevent recurrence. You can do up to two treatments in one day, but you must wait at least two hours between sessions.

Important Disclaimers

  • Advanced Allergy Therapeutics (AAT) does not diagnose or test for allergies, sensitivities, or intolerances. AAT does not cure allergies, nor does it treat the immune system. 
  • AAT assesses potential stressors on the body and may provide long-term relief from symptoms associated with allergies or sensitivities, but there is no guarantee that AAT will work, that symptoms will not return after you experience relief, or that new symptoms will not arise.
    Some are not responsive to AAT.
  • AAT does not treat anaphylaxis or any life-threatening symptoms. AIM for Wellbeing advises you to strictly avoid anything that can cause anaphylaxis. 
  • We do not treat allergies that can cause anaphylaxis with AAT. However, we can treat you for other, non-life-threatening allergies and sensitivities.
  • We cannot treat food intolerances or food allergies with AAT. Food intolerance is different in that it may involve an enzyme deficiency that prevents the body from properly digesting the substance. AAT cannot help with this.

AIM for Wellbeing's Advanced Allergy Therapeutics Providers

Dr. Eric R. Dieffenbaugher, DC, provides AAT at AIM for Wellbeing.

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