Are Allergy Drops Safe for Children? 

When it comes to choosing a treatment for your child, safety isn’t just important, it’s everything. Allergy care can feel overwhelming, especially when it involves frequent pokes or treatments that aren't well-suited for kids. At Allergy Associates of La Crosse (AAOL), our method was built around safety, personalization, and long-term success, offering a path to relief that’s been trusted by hundreds of thousands of families.

Why Allergy Drops Are Safe

Unlike other most allergy immunotherapy options, allergy drops following The La Crosse Method™ Protocol are custom to each patient and their specific level of sensitivity. This is determined through thorough history, exam, and allergy testing. Those elements come together to give your provider the full picture of your child's allergies, and a plan to start feeling better.

The allergy testing results are used to create a vial of allergy drops that contain tiny amounts of the identified allergens, combined with a glycerin base, that are increased over time. If your child is more sensitive to ragweed, for example, initially there may be less ragweed antigen in the vial than other allergens. The dose is high enough to help build tolerance, but not too high to cause reactions.

Personalization is what makes it so safe for children, from infants to teenagers, to slowly build tolerance to what makes them sick. There has never been a life-threatening reaction reported following this protocol at AAOL, or around the country.

The Allergic March

Besides starting your child on allergy treatment so that they can feel better, there is another big reason that providers at AAOL recommend treating allergy early in life — halting the allergic march.

The allergic march is the progression of allergies as a child grows. Since allergy is an immune reaction that can change over time, an infant with eczema is likely to later develop allergic rhinitis and asthma. If you intervene early and modify the disease with allergy drops, that downward allergy spiral can often be reduced or stopped.

How to Know When to Start

How do you know when it’s time to start treating your child's allergies? We tend to think, the earlier, the better to keep your child healthy and stop the allergic march. If allergies are impacting their daily life or keeping them from activities they love, it may be the right time to consider treatment.

Allergy drops are a great option for kids. They aren’t painful or arduous - they’re a tiny liquid drop that’s placed under the tongue three times a day. They can be taken wherever you and your child are, and kids tend to enjoy the slightly sweet taste.

Schedule a consultation at AAOL to see if it’s the right option for your family.