Acupuncturist Treats Complex Allergies and Pediatric Cases with Advanced Allergy Therapeutics

Hi, my name is Dr. Melisa Skyrm and I'm an acupuncturist in New Jersey. I started using AAT over ten years ago and I honestly started using it for my own self because I had allergies and it really made a huge difference in myself but when I saw the changes that it made in my patients with respiratory allergies, autoimmune conditions, dietary issues, a whole gamut and really being able to help children I think like infants and babies, elderly as well that sometimes have issues with being needled or children that are on the spectrum or have autism that a lot of times we didn't help couldn't help enough. Before AAT sometimes we would have very complex situations or patients where we really couldn't figure out what was happening like digestively so we could support them but they were always having reactions and it was it kept repeating. Or whether it was someone was reacting to whether it was foods or it could be a mosquito bite for example and they would just flare up to these just large welts. So just a variety of symptoms or even people who had complex conditions like Lyme Disease. Those are some examples of things that initially were happening in they still do occur but now utilizing Advanced Allergy Therapeutics we have more or I have more solutions to help them. I think tend to be a little bit of a Doubting Thomas kind of human which is interesting because this is not very concrete like honestly, right? So I remember when I was first learning it and practicing, I was surprised, it was one of my first patients and I love talking about him, because well, there's a couple of them but having such you know, having such horrible allergies like their eyes were like totally puffy and swollen or, like they were like crusted and, and you know they were having a hard time at school or playing sports and I remember doing the AAT and clearing trees and and, you know, I was like, okay, it's probably going to take a few treatments to help you, you know, come back. then this one he was a teenager, he came back and I was like how are you doing? He's like I'm 80% better and he was so happy because he could play baseball and he felt great you know, and that's it's just so painful. Right. You know, too, When your eyes people think oh they're just swollen but a lot of times they hurt they're stinging, right? You're itching and it's aggravating and he was just glowing and so that I think is one of my favorites especially from the initial part because I was like and I literally was surprised myself that I was like WOW like, this is really working like this is great you know? so then it just. It just kept more and know, more people and stories I mean thousands of people. When you're first learning it you're trying to figure out how to incorporate because I think that there's so many different aspects to it and there are some practitioners who just do the respiratory aspect and it's a very robust system that you can use it for a variety of conditions or even helping people like long COVID, so I think it did speed things up you realize it's like okay I'm going to help initially people with respiratory and then you have these other people with chronic conditions and you're like wait I can help them in this way with it. So I think it was an evolution even as I was here in New Jersey. Seeing that so it did speed things up and being able to identify certain things and I can give you an example is like if histamine kept showing up for people it's not just the allergy like you're having like a mass cell activation or you're having a histamine response like maybe we need to look at like high histamine foods, there's other ways of sort of looking at it that's why I love it so much in helping me to identify different avenues that I need to address with people with the education as well. I think from AAT it can be respiratory like I have people who have cats and they have a cat allergy or they're going to go visit someone who has a cat so those types of patients. I think that has really expanded because a lot of times we might just get pain clients for acupuncture I think a lot of people think of that traditionally and also just more complicated cases as well because of the AAT. I found it easy to learn how to do it I think like you know touched on how robust the system is, I think in being able to utilize all that it encompasses that takes time. I mean there are different styles of acupuncture where you don't insert needles first and foremost there's like Japanese style but think a lot of times people don't think about acupuncture for their children and it can be very helpful but like, babies, like newborns and sometimes they're having an allergy to their mother's milk or they're having an allergy to detergent that maybe is being utilized or maybe something the mom is eating and I think that AAT has been really a great way to help with babies and to sort of see that like a younger population because people might be a little bit more averse to say like well my baby's having this. they're not going to think about I'm going to go have acupuncture done to help my little baby so but AAT sort of opens that door and can really give a lot of solutions and help in those scenarios.