One treatment for inhalant Allergies is desensitization. This is not available for food allergies. In desensitization treatment, the patient is injected with small, dilute extracts of the inhalant allergens. The dosage is gradually built up, until the body is less sensitive to the allergen. This is a slow process, involving months to years for a complete treatment, though there is benefit even after a few months for many. Initially, the patient receives two shots per week. This is reduced to one shot a week, then one every other week over time. The initial treatment, however, involves visits to the doctor (or a medical place that will do the injections) rather regularly. The actual time to get the injection is about 20 minutes -- the injection is quick, but the patient is usually asked to wait in the office for about 20 minutes to see if a reaction develops. These reactions occur in a small percentage of patients but they need to be treated promptly. Desensitization can also be used for insect sting allergies. Your doctor will know whether this is an appropriate treatment in your particular case.
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What has the author Francine Shapiro written?
Francine Shapiro has written: 'Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing' 'Getting past your past' -- subject(s): Anxiety disorders, Treatment, SELF-HELP / General, Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
What treatment process might a psychologist employ to help Tom overcome his phobia of dogs and other animals?
systematic desensitization
What is the treatment for paruresis?
Current treatment is based upon cognitive-behavioral therapy, to modify the abnormal thoughts, desensitization, relaxation techniques, drug treatments (terazosin, tamsulosin and alfuzosin).
What has the author William Andreas Germer written?
William Andreas Germer has written: 'Effectiveness of cognitive modification, desensitization, and rational-emotive therapy in the treatment of speech anxiety' -- subject(s): Anxiety, Cognitive therapy, Desensitization (Psychotherapy), Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Public speaking, Public speaking, Rational emotive behavior therapy, Stage fright, Treatment
What does Desensitization mean in the hunger games?
The word DESENSITIZATION mean to render insensitive or less sensitive.
What treatment does syphilis use?
Normal treatment for all stages is Benzathine penicillin G. Penacilling pills are not used. There are other options for allergic patients in early syphilis. In later stages, the patient sees an allergist for penicillin desensitization so that they can take treatment.
What is nestedsoiiizant unscrambled?
The anagram is desensitization.
What to do with the desensitization kit on virtual family?
This desensitization kit will remove a DISLIKE from a character. ie: they hate to work.... lol ... it takes it away :)
Systematic Desensitization utilizes relaxation and?
visualization.
What is Systematic desensitization a form of?
exposure therapy
What are treaments of syphilis?
Normal treatment for all stages is Benzathine penicillin G. Penacillin pills are not used. There are other options available in early syphilis for patients with penicillin allergy. In later stages, those patients see an allergist for desensitization so that they can take treatment.
What has the author Robert H Tinker written?
Robert H. Tinker has written: 'Through the eyes of a child' -- subject(s): Psychic trauma in children, Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for children, Treatment
What two conditions systematic desensitization should be used?
Phobias and Anxiety
What has the author John A Nicoletti written?
John A. Nicoletti has written: 'Anxiety management training' -- subject(s): Anxiety, Desensitization (Psychotherapy), Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Public speaking, Public speaking, Relaxation, Stage fright, Treatment
Which type of therapy is likely to be used to help someone with a phobia about spiders?
desensitization
What is the fear of bunnies called?
Leporiphobia.Almost all phobias can be overcome by desensitization therapy. You can do this.
What should you do if you are scared of planes?
If the fear of planes is actually lived as a phobia, it is possible to follow a treatment called desensitization. Desensitization includes a progressive exposition to the fear-inducing stimulus. As such, the therapist will usually create a list with the patient stimulus related to the object that creates a stress and will order these stimuli according to the amount of fear they provoke. Then, the patient is gradually exposed to each stimuli, in a controlled environment, until the stress and fear experienced decrease to a tolerable level.
What are the differences between receptor desensitization and down regulation?
Desensitization is where the receptors become phosphorylated and therefore inactive but remain on the plasma membrane. Down regulation is any scenario where there are less numbers of receptors on the plasma membrane. So this can include internalization.
What is a medical specialty that treats abnormal responses to acquired hypersensitivity to substances with medical methods including testing and desensitization?
Allergy and immunology allergist treats abnormal responses or acquired hypersensitivity to substances with medical methods including testing and desensitization.
The two behavior-therapy methods of flooding and systematic desensitization are based on the principle of what?
The behavior therapy methods of flooding and systematic desensitization are both quite different ways of overcoming a phobia. While flooding forces you to confront your fears, systematic desensitization teaches how to develop relaxation skills then eventually setup a hierarchy system ie. being scared of spiders is not as bad as being scared of public humiliation.
What is disconnected youth?
A generalisation of a generation that are reportably dissasotiated with there soul due to communal and visual desensitization.
Jerking movements in the eyes related to memory?
EMDR which stands for eye movement desensitization reprocessing
What is desensitization and how did the author express this theme in novel the hunger games?
it is when you die. The author described it as "when you die"
What are 3 things that hypnotherapy is used for to treat?
To help insomnia, anxiety reduction, fear desensitization.
How are sensitization and desensitization different?
Sensitization also called positive adaptation is the type of sensory adaptation in which we become more sensitive to stimuli that are low in magnitude. Desensitization also called negative adaptation is the type of sensory adaptation in which we become less sensitive to constant stimuli.
