Salt serums, essential oils, homeopathy, acupuncture… Allergies are on the rise all over the world and this is leading the market to offer more or less useful - and sometimes harmful - solutions to improve patient comfort.
They are all the easier to market because allergies do not benefit from officially concerted – and therefore well-funded – research efforts that promote scientific validation.
“However, we are seeing more and more studies carried out by non-drug approaches laboratories, which have understood that scientific proof was an essential argument for increasingly informed patients
, underlines Professor Pascal Demoly, head of the service. of pulmonology, allergology and thoracic oncology at Montpellier University Hospital.
Some of them may thus be officially validated.
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