Allergy Center
About our Allergy Practice
Our allergy practice was first introduced into this area in October of 1978.
A. Our doctors and nurses regularly participate in AAOA meetings and training seminars. The
six doctors and three trained allergy nurses have a combined total of 136 years of otolaryngic
experience and 128 years of allergy experience.
Our physicians and staff offer many services in the allergy department including allergy testing,
both skin endpoint titration (SET), and Skin Prick Testing (SPT), including the Modified
Quantitative Testing method. We also offer Food testing and injections, diet counseling, and the
sale of multivitamins, buffered Vitamin C and Acidophillus for our patients’ convenience.
Once you have seen one of our physicians, and allergy testing is deemed necessary, you will
be taken to our allergy department to meet with an allergy nurse. She will then schedule your
appointment, and give you our allergy folder with all the appropriate instructions prior to testing.
After all questions have been thoroughly answered, your chart will go to insurance. The
insurance department will contact your insurance company for verification of benefits. You will
then be notified by phone of your benefits.
Prior to the Test
Once you have been scheduled for allergy testing, there are certain medications we will ask you
to be off of for different amounts of time. These medications will affect the test and make test
results unreliable.
Please notify the allergy staff of any medications that you are taking. We are particularly
interested in blood pressure , heart or migraine headache medications, and certain eye drops.
Beta-blockers are of a major concern.
Listed below is a partial list of those medications.
Acebutolol- (Sectrol)
Atenolol- (Tenormin)
Betaxolol-(Kerlone, Betopic, Betopic-S)
Bisoprolol- (Zebeta)
Carteolol- (Cartrol)
Carvedilol- (Coreg)
Esmolol-(Brevibloc)
Labetalol-(Normodyne, Trandate)
Methaldopa- (Aldomet)
Metoprolol- (Lopresser, Toprol XL)
Nadolol-(Corgard)
Penbutolol-(Levatrol)
Pindolol-(Visken)
Propanolol- (Inderal)
Sotolol- (Betapace)
Timolol-(Timoptic, Betimol, Timoptic-XE, Blockadren)
Allergy Injection Hours
Allergy injections are given Monday-Thursday from 8:30-11:30 and 1:00-4:30. All patients are
required to wait in our back waiting room for 20 minutes after each injection.
Allergy injections are usually started on Thursday afternoon in the same week of testing. Our
staff has allowed extra time for newly tested allergy patients for consultation.
Allergy injections may be taken out of the office after the fifth injection. Please make
arrangements with our allergy staff to instruct you on self injections. If you as a patient do not
feel comfortable giving your own injections, we will be happy to instruct a family member. All
patients will be instructed on our office policy regarding allergy at this time. A prescription for
an Epi-pen will be given. You may purchase syringe trays from our office.
For those patients who take their allergy vials out of the office, you are responsible for
for sending in your blue or green mailing cards when you give injection #8 out of your vials.
This will ensure that your new vials will be mailed in approximately 2 weeks. You may also
leave a message on the allergy voice mail. The direct line number is 318-629-4687.
Fax orders are accepted and will be filled in a timely manner.
The phone number for the allergy center is 318-226-9441.
The fax number for the Line Avenue office is 318-425-3236.
All allergy testing, consultations, injections, and vials are administered through the Line Avenue
office.
All allergy patients should see their physician six months after starting their injections, then
yearly .
All food allergy patients should see their physician monthly for three months, then every six
months until treatment is discontinued.
Our allergy practice was first introduced into this area in October of 1978.
A. Our doctors and nurses regularly participate in AAOA meetings and training seminars. The
six doctors and three trained allergy nurses have a combined total of 136 years of otolaryngic
experience and 128 years of allergy experience.
Our physicians and staff offer many services in the allergy department including allergy testing,
both skin endpoint titration (SET), and Skin Prick Testing (SPT), including the Modified
Quantitative Testing method. We also offer Food testing and injections, diet counseling, and the
sale of multivitamins, buffered Vitamin C and Acidophillus for our patients’ convenience.
Once you have seen one of our physicians, and allergy testing is deemed necessary, you will
be taken to our allergy department to meet with an allergy nurse. She will then schedule your
appointment, and give you our allergy folder with all the appropriate instructions prior to testing.
After all questions have been thoroughly answered, your chart will go to insurance. The
insurance department will contact your insurance company for verification of benefits. You will
then be notified by phone of your benefits.
Prior to the Test
Once you have been scheduled for allergy testing, there are certain medications we will ask you
to be off of for different amounts of time. These medications will affect the test and make test
results unreliable.
Please notify the allergy staff of any medications that you are taking. We are particularly
interested in blood pressure , heart or migraine headache medications, and certain eye drops.
Beta-blockers are of a major concern.
Listed below is a partial list of those medications.
Acebutolol- (Sectrol)
Atenolol- (Tenormin)
Betaxolol-(Kerlone, Betopic, Betopic-S)
Bisoprolol- (Zebeta)
Carteolol- (Cartrol)
Carvedilol- (Coreg)
Esmolol-(Brevibloc)
Labetalol-(Normodyne, Trandate)
Methaldopa- (Aldomet)
Metoprolol- (Lopresser, Toprol XL)
Nadolol-(Corgard)
Penbutolol-(Levatrol)
Pindolol-(Visken)
Propanolol- (Inderal)
Sotolol- (Betapace)
Timolol-(Timoptic, Betimol, Timoptic-XE, Blockadren)
Allergy Injection Hours
Allergy injections are given Monday-Thursday from 8:30-11:30 and 1:00-4:30. All patients are
required to wait in our back waiting room for 20 minutes after each injection.
Allergy injections are usually started on Thursday afternoon in the same week of testing. Our
staff has allowed extra time for newly tested allergy patients for consultation.
Allergy injections may be taken out of the office after the fifth injection. Please make
arrangements with our allergy staff to instruct you on self injections. If you as a patient do not
feel comfortable giving your own injections, we will be happy to instruct a family member. All
patients will be instructed on our office policy regarding allergy at this time. A prescription for
an Epi-pen will be given. You may purchase syringe trays from our office.
For those patients who take their allergy vials out of the office, you are responsible for
for sending in your blue or green mailing cards when you give injection #8 out of your vials.
This will ensure that your new vials will be mailed in approximately 2 weeks. You may also
leave a message on the allergy voice mail. The direct line number is 318-629-4687.
Fax orders are accepted and will be filled in a timely manner.
The phone number for the allergy center is 318-226-9441.
The fax number for the Line Avenue office is 318-425-3236.
All allergy testing, consultations, injections, and vials are administered through the Line Avenue
office.
All allergy patients should see their physician six months after starting their injections, then
yearly .
All food allergy patients should see their physician monthly for three months, then every six
months until treatment is discontinued.
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The Ear, Nose and Throat Center
Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport, Louisiana
