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desensitization is a method to reduce or eliminate an organism's negative reaction to a substance or stimulus.

This means that you are exposed to a small amount of the substance you are allergic to e.g. dog hair and this is done either for 5 weeks a year for 3 years by injection or you take a course of tablets every day for three years.

though this treatment ma not cure it completely it will almost certainly reduce the symptoms

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