New treatment could be a hay fever game-changer

Melbourne researchers have found a simple tablet which could be a game-changer for people who suffer allergic reactions including hay fever and thunderstorm asthma.

The tablets, which are infused with tiny doses of grass pollens, have been shown to provide long-term protection against allergic reactions including thunderstorm asthma.

Head of the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Laboratory at Monash University, Professor Menno van Zelm, says tablets must be put under the tongue each day for four months pre-pollen season.

“It’s actually used to retrain the immune system,” he told 3AW Breakfast.

But Professor van Zelm cautioned it doesn’t work for all allergy sufferers.

“It works in many people, but not in everyone,” he said.

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