Allergy Shots

If you need allergy injections to maintain a desensitization schedule prescribed by an allergist, we can help. Health center nursing staff administer allergy serum if a patient has completed some preliminary steps.

First-time allergy patients

Your first injection must be administered at your allergist's office. We cannot administer a first injection. Please see your allergist to begin your desensitization schedule. We are happy to provide injections after that. To start, we will need clear instructions from your allergist that include:

• Patient name and date of birth
• Up-to-date injection schedule
• Serum concentration, antigens, and expiration date
• Frequency and dosage amount
• Late instructions for missed injections
• Reaction history as well as treatment for local and systemic reactions
• Last injection recorded with strength and dosage amount

Have your allergist fax these instructions to our fax inbox (888) 979-8229. Mark the fax "Attention: allergy nurse".

Your first appointment with us

After completing the steps above and after we have received the required instructions, a nurse will contact you confirming that we have received all the necessary information. Patients who have never been seen at Sindecuse Health Center will schedule an appointment with a physician or physician's assistant in order to establish care. At this appointment, we will review your physician's orders and your medication history. Your provider will explain Sindecuse Health Center's allergy injection policy. 

• Check in at registration with your health insurance card and identification.
• Bring your allergist's instructions and bottles of antigen for the injection.
• Plan to wait at the health center after your injection for the time specified by your allergist to ensure that you do not have a reaction to your antigen. Reactions are rare but if they occur, nurses and doctors are available to provide you with effective emergency care. 
• If a delayed reaction occurs, please return to the health center. If we are closed, go to a hospital emergency room or an immediate care center.

Subsequent allergy shots

Make an appointment online by selecting "Allergy Shots" from the patient portal appointment scheduling questions or call (269) 387-3287 to schedule a time convenient for you. Allow ample time around your class schedule to include the required waiting time after an injection.