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Clinic Opens in Asheville Offering New Allergy Treatment
Advanced Allergy Therapeutics was first developed 15 years ago in Australia. Since that time it has successfully helped allergy sufferers the world over, but until recently it has not been available in the Carolinas. The Del Vecchio Clinic, now open in Asheville, has changed that.
Beverly’s two and a half year old son, Andy, would fight recurring ear infections every spring and summer. “Last summer, after a horrible ear infection that would not leave, I began giving him Zyrtec daily at the suggestion of a doctor,” Beverly recalls. This year, when spring came around and he started pulling on his ears and smacking the sides of his head as usual, Beverly brought her son to the Del Vecchio Clinic. “After one treatment for plant phenolics, Andy was completely better,” Beverly says. “I continued the Zyrtec for a few days as a precaution, but when I stopped, the ear troubles didn’t start. We’re now in August and Andy has had no troubles with his ear at all!”
Lucia Del Vecchio, business manager for The Del Vecchio Clinic, learned about Advanced Allergy Therapeutics (AAT) through researching treatment for her intense food allergies. After being treated with AAT, Lucia is now able to eat anything she wants without symptoms for the first time in her life. Her experience inspired her brother Sam, a licensed acupuncturist, to pursue training and licensure in the new technology, and The Del Vecchio Clinic opened in May of this year.
AAT is a breakthrough technology that eliminates the reactions from most forms of allergies and sensitivities. Rather than simply addressing the symptoms, AAT treats the problem at its source by retraining the body so that it no longer reacts inappropriately to a harmless substance. AAT uses gentle pressure to stimulate points on the back, which correspond with the major organ systems. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, this stimulation relaxes the body and temporarily strengthens each of the major organ systems. The patient is simultaneously exposed to very subtle and safe levels of the allergen. The body associates the positive stimulus with the exposure of the allergen and no longer perceives it as harmful. The treatment is non-invasive, with no needles, no drugs, no avoidance, and no herbal remedies.
The Del Vecchio Clinic is the only location in the state of North Carolina with the AAT technology. AAT can treat any substance or stimulus that causes a negative reaction, including foods, seasonal allergens, chemical sensitivities, environmental elements, and many others. “I was allergic to hot peppers all my life and after one treatment with Sam at The Del Vecchio Clinic, I was able to actually eat one with no reaction at all! Being allergy-free has opened a whole new culinary world for me,” attests Cheryl, a client of the clinic.
The Del Vecchio Clinic is located on Chestnut Ridge Rd., near UNCA. Appointments can be made by calling 545-3554 and more information can be found at www.dvclinic.com.
I have had the "advanced allergy" treatment done for a wide range of severe food intolerances (including salicylates and amines) in Australia with almost full recovery. I occasionally get "prickly sensations", but the mental fog, palpitations etc have gone completely. My son has recovered from seasonal hayfever attacks. They have been "lifesavers" where nothing else has worked. Definitely not quakery!!!
The alleged board-certified allergist displayed the same kind of righteous outrage that surgeons in Austria did over a century ago when it was suggested to them that washing their hands between patients was a necessity to avoid spreading disease. Or that doctors exhibited when penicillin was being introduced, since some thought it too was just nonsense. Sure, there have been medical frauds, but there have been plenty of advances that met with skepticism first. Anecdotal data doesn’t mean much, until there are hundreds and thousands of valid anecdotes… then that’s called data. Having seen someone who got violently ill if exposed to things containing the least amount of corn product as a trace ingredient, who can now eat popcorn after treatment, I cannot deny the effectiveness of this methodology, and I am a Chemist with two degrees and plenty of published research papers.
What’s with the all caps temper tantrum guy? Someone must have really let him down in a big way…let’s just hope he doesn’t go postal.
I not longer have to take Prilosec after my two treatments with the clinic. I’m looking forward to being treated for my berry allergies.
Show us the published, peer reviewed efficacy data!!!!
Anecdotal stories do not constitute scientific support.
I stand by my assessment,
FRAUD and QUACKERY!!!!
I take issue with your accusation of fraud, especially considering you posted it anonymously. I challenge you to speak with any number of our patients whose lives have been changed for the better. I personally have a completely different life now after this therapy, after spending my life suffering from the ill effects of food allergies I can now eat with friends and family freely. I sincerely invite you or anyone to visit our clinic free of charge to learn more about how AAT works, and I can put you in contact with patients of ours who will be happy to recount their positive and successful experiences with AAT and our clinic.
That would be a resounding NO!!!!!
This is absolute quackery, just like chelation therapy for autism.
Nonsense such as this should be forbidden by the FDA.
Shameless fraud, nothing else.
I am a Board Certified Allergy and Immunology specialist.
Thanks for your question, Steve. AAT is a relatively new approach to allergy treatment, so studies are just getting underway. In 2009, the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands will be introducing AAT to their Department of Innovative Medicine for treatment in the university hospital and to conduct a series of studies. Publishing of any studies will coincide with the granting of a US patent. That being said, AAT has been utitlized in Australia for nearly 15 years, and the success rates are in the 80-90% range. We are seeing the same rates in our clinic as well.
Western medicine certainly didn’t provide effective help for my allergies in my youth decades ago. But are there any clinical trials of this method?