When Do You Desensitize?

Desensitization should be only be performed if the delayed reaction was non-severe. Before a clinician ultimately decides to desensitize, he or she must weigh the risks and benefits of this procedure [20,21].

How is desensitization done?

A temporary desensitization method involves the administration of small doses of an allergen to produces an IgE-mediated response in a setting where an individual can be resuscitated in the event of anaphylaxis; this approach, through uncharacterized mechanisms, eventually overrides the hypersensitive IgE response.

What does it mean when you desensitize?

transitive verb. 1 : to make (a sensitized or hypersensitive individual) insensitive or nonreactive to a sensitizing agent. 2 : to make emotionally insensitive or callous specifically : to extinguish an emotional response (as of fear, anxiety, or guilt) to stimuli that formerly induced it.

Marcus Vance

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