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Launch HN: Wyndly (YC W21) – Allergy relief through at-home oral drops

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Re: Launch HN: Wyndly (YC W21) – Allergy relief through at-home oral drops

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Post by zenon »

claytongulick wrote: post #120
whymauri wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How effective is this against eczema? Without proper insurance, this is a better deal than medications like Dupixent, right?

As someone who's battled this my whole life, and gone down a crazy number of rabbit holes on it, my personal recommendation to you is to try elimination diet. Especially milk and milk products. If you decide to try this, don't do it halfway. Read the ingredients of everything you eat. Don't eat at restaurants. Stick with it for three months. I went from having difficulty walking, and being unable to use my hands due…

Wow, thank you, I've finally found a name for the rash I used to get on my hands. It showed up when I ate wheat several days in a row, when I played with Play-doh, and when I used latex dishwashing gloves. Took years to figure it out. I still have scarring because of it.

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

ahstilde wrote: post #71
dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #17

OK a few points from someone who uses oral drops for (strong, class 6) dust mite allergy. * the first dose MUST be administered by a doctor (so that they can take measures if an acute adverse reaction happens) - for the same reason you must not leave the doctor for some half an hour after the first dose * you must stick to the regime if it's going to be efficient (i.e. no forgetting your dose) * for dust mite allergy…

Thanks for sharing your experience! It sounds different from many of our patients' experience -- we don't want our patients to have to repeat treatment! Our goal is to give our patients lifelong allergy relief with as little hassle as possible.

My personal experience is obviously limited - I'm using Staloral drops, they're very popular in Europe. Also, they seem to be very effective[0]:

"sublingual immunotherapy was able to reduce the mean number of asthma attacks per year from 8.2 ± 3.05 before treatment to 0.44 ± 0.79 after 3 years, ie, the recommended duration of sublingual immunotherapy; complete clinical remission was recorded in 95% of patients with asthma and in 82% of patients with rhinitis"

However, my doctor told me that what happens after 3-5 years after you stopped taking it is uncertain and often the therapy is repeated. The studies I saw about it are fairly recent so I guess researchers themselves might not be 100% sure about the long-term effectivity.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3363974/

Re: Launch HN: Wyndly (YC W21) – Allergy relief through at-home oral drops

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Post by Closi »

jjcon wrote: post #118
borski wrote: post #100

Genuine question: there are already many others doing this, including online. For example: https://myallergydrops.com/ https://www.allergyeasy.com/ How do you folks differentiate?

Considering that first link just has big buck bunny for all their videos and stock photo testimonials im guessing they aren't actually operating

Yeah, you are right. OP has stock photo testimonials but at least got rid of any stock videos :)

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Post by tallanvor »

"The Providers are independent of Wyndly Health and are merely using the Site as a way to communicate with you. Any information or advice received from a Provider comes from them alone, and not from Wyndly Health."

So...

Who makes the drops?

Who decides what goes in them?

Where are they made?

Under what conditions?

Are they approved by the FDA?

You post some publications about the benefits, but how am I supposed to be able to evaluate what you're offering and verify that it's not some pseudoscience like homeopathy?

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Post by mrfusion »

mananatwyndly wrote: post #114
mrfusion wrote: post #75

So how does a vaccine train your body to attack an antigen but allergy shots/drops do the opposite?

It actually works in a very similar fashion. Both vaccines and allergy drops change the immune system and create antibodies. In the case of vaccines, your body creates antibodies that bind to the virus to prevent them from causing symptoms of the virus (sickness/illness). For allergy shots/drops your body also makes antibodies to bind to the allergens and prevent them from causing symptoms of the allergens like sneez…

Interesting. I still don’t see why one causes inflammation and one lessens it.

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Post by nickreese »

panosfilianos wrote: post #122

Hey, good luck with the lauch! I just want to note that I'd be wary to try any medical treatment if the website had a testimonial from a fake person like Jason ( https://www.pexels.com/photo/adult-beard-boy-casual-220453/ ).

Whoa. Surprised to see they haven’t responded to this. Had signed up for a consultation and this will be one of my first questions.

Re: Launch HN: Wyndly (YC W21) – Allergy relief through at-home oral drops

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Post by craftinator »

panosfilianos wrote: post #122

Hey, good luck with the lauch! I just want to note that I'd be wary to try any medical treatment if the website had a testimonial from a fake person like Jason ( https://www.pexels.com/photo/adult-beard-boy-casual-220453/ ).

Looking through the testimonials, they all look like stock photos. Probably a lot easier and nicer looking than actual photos of the people, but it doesn't do anything for my "this is a marketing scam" feeling...

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Post by orliesaurus »

jacquesl wrote: post #78
orliesaurus wrote: post #42

A couple of friends and I (back in London) tried to work on this exact same problem, we built an allergy-log app which in theory was going to sync with the doctor's office so that they could recommend a therapy (or even skip the visits with docs and specialists). Our monetizing strategy was to ship you the "therapy" and take a cut - we worked on it for 6 months and then..life threw us some lemons. Definitely a good i…

I’ve thought about similar apps, and gave up on the end because allergies were to complex to surface through logging. What type of allergies and tracking were you working on?

The most common ones in food and the most common ones in the air. Our idea was to track how people react, compile a log and have it processed so that we can tell them - yup you have this one allergy because of this pattern of what you ate, did, the air you breath etc. based on the evidence submitted. It was a very long "LOG" but if people were serious about compiling it and didn't l eave things blank, the folks on our med team were certain we could have given them a "cure" that worked for their allergy.

Ofc, this wouldn't work with super extreme cases where you're allergic to a very specific uncommon thing. but this is a 80/20 solution.

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