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

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Post by hotels1337 » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 2:51 AM UTC

This is awesome. I have been following SLIT and SCIT for a while and it's great to see a startup helping to make SLIT more accessible. It's quite hard to find a local provider unless you live in a big city.

One question for you: What do you base your maintenance allergen dosage on? (e.g., research studies, your clinical experience, what Europe does, something else). Specifically, could you let me know for dust mite droppings, what your dosage is?

I ask because I've been thinking about SLIT for a while, but I follow the allergy subreddit and there's a guy on there that seems to comment on every single SLIT thread saying that in the US, the allergen level used for SLIT is way too low, and much lower compared to what is used in research studies [1]. He cites a bunch of research papers that seem to support what he's saying, so would love to hear your perspective.

[1] Here's an example comment by larkasaur; https://www.reddit.com/r/Allergies/comments/in0v4j/is_anybod...

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

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Post by mk4p » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 6:07 AM UTC

ahstilde wrote: post #139

gumby wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could make a little footnote (and have clicking on the photo send you to that anchor) explaining this. Then it would come off as kind/cool rather than (potentially) suspicious. And you could point out (if it's true) in the footnote that the testimonials are the unedited actual words of people who've used the product.

That's a good idea! We're hoping to get permission from some of our patients to directly share their stories, too.

You can also use a randomly-generated image from https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Reload the page for a new nonexistent person.

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

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Post by jacquesl » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 10:00 AM UTC

orliesaurus wrote: post #130

jacquesl wrote: post #78

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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 ou…

Thanks for that. In my case I suffered guessing and tracking for years before I gave in and had extensive tests done. As for cures, that’s another story.

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

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Post by dhumph » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 3:04 PM UTC

Hi, This is so very timely! I just got a allergy skin test yesterday for animals and in the doctor's words it was "negative" - however my irritated eyes would disagree - and the fate of the guinea pig in my living room is hanging in the balance.

Given the number of google results for this it would be great if you discussed how a skin response could be different than a sinus/eye response...

Also, in the section for the at home blood test - i'd be interested in understanding how blood test differ from a skin test and if it's less subjective. While I have a hive response to bee I don't have any to dog... does the blood test give me specific #'s on this spectrum? Do you use these as inputs to provide an appropriate dose of that allergen, or are all starting doeses very low.

How does this work for something like a severe bee alergy?

Given the complexity of allergies and the numerous ways they have symptoms, it would be great if you discussed how immunotherpy can help individual symptoms. Perhaps your UX could have a journey that the customer goes down. What are you alergic to? Where do you see symptoms? How bad are they? -> here's our recommedation and research that backs up why this will work for you.