Respiratory allergies follow a chronic and progressing disease course, especially when left untreated. Allergic rhinitis is often underdiagnosed and from onset of symptoms, a patient may have waited eight years to see a specialist1.

 

 

Globally, over

400 million people2

suffer from allergic rhinitis

 

Asthma and allergic rhinitis are estimated to result in more than

100 million3

lost workdays and missed school days every year

 

Patients may have waited

8 years

to see a specialist1

 

Allergen immunotherapy is used in

less than 10%4

of eligible patients

 

 

1. Bousquet J, et al. Allergy 2008;63(S86):8-160 - Canonica GW, et al. World Allergy Organ J 2008;1:138-44 - Valovirta E. EFA Book on Respiratory Allergies - Raise Awareness, Relieve the Burden. www.efanet.org — 2. Valero A. Et al. Am J Rhinol Allergy 2011 — 3. Canonica GW. Etb al. Allergy 2007;62 (suppl. 85) — 4. The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Advocacy Manifest — 5. Peter Hellings et al. Rhinology 2020, and Professor Glenis Scadding et al., WAO Journal 2020