CROSS OPINIONS – Recommended mainly for respiratory allergies, desensitization is a restrictive and long-term treatment. What should we expect from it and what are its limits? Le Figaro had two experts react.
The map published this Wednesday by the National Aerobiological Surveillance Network is entirely red for the risk of pollen allergy, with the exception of Finistère. There is no doubt that the sneezing attacks, watery eyes and wheezing caused by this influx of allergens will make more than one think about the benefits of desensitization. To answer questions on the subject, Le Figaro asked two specialists, doctors Julien Cottet and Jocelyne Just, to react.
Dr Julien Cottet: “Well-conducted desensitization works very well in respiratory allergies.”
Julien Cottet is an allergist, vice-president of the French Society of Allergology (SFA) and vice-president of the Allergenic Immunotherapy working group within the SFA.
“It is estimated that 25% of the population currently suffers from allergies, and that this proportion could increase to 50% in 2050. We must therefore prepare to face a major crisis. These conditions are due to a bug in the immune system, which reacts inappropriately and exaggeratedly to natural, non-pathogenic substances…
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