Patient journey

Respiratory allergies follow a chronic and progressing disease course, especially when left untreated¹.

Allergic rhinitis is often underdiagnosed, and a patient may have waited six years after the onset of symptoms to see a specialist².

Food allergy symptoms are most common in babies and children but can appear at any age, and people can develop an allergy to foods they have eaten for years without any allergic reaction⁵.

Symptoms can appear a few minutes after ingesting a food and up to two hours later⁶. Food allergy reactions include a variety of clinical conditions affecting the gastrointestinal tract, skin and lungs, as well as sometimes fatal anaphylaxis⁷.

Food allergy diagnosis is difficult and about 50-60% percent of all blood tests and skin prick tests will yield a “false positive” result⁸.