The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has given the green light to a new daily treatment option for persistent moderate-to-severe house dust mite allergic rhinitis, which should benefit over 10,000. This is the first of it’s kind in allergy treatment.
Published on January 30, 2025 NICE recommends in final draft guidance the treatment, known as 12 SQ-HDM SLIT (Acarizax; ALK-Abello), for people aged 12–65 years.
This innovative treatment works by giving a regular fixed dose of house dust mite allergy extract every day over three years. This increases the body’s resistance to house dust mites, so it becomes less sensitive to their effect, reducing the symptoms of the allergic reaction over time.
The treatment is recommended for those who have been diagnosed through their clinical history and had a positive test for house dust mite allergy through either a skin prick test or specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE) test from blood.
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