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Allergies: Testing and Treatments

Level: Practitioner QLS level 3

By successfully completing this course, you will:

  • Gain skills and knowledge to practice Allergies: Testing and Treatments – graduates of this course can also obtain professional liability insurance
  • Receive the Certificate of Achievement at QLS Level 3*
  • Become a Registered BSY Allergies: Testing and Treatments Practitioner
  • Be awarded the professional BSY Diploma
  • Be eligible to become a member of AHCP (Association of Complementary Practitioners)

You can study this course from the comfort of your own home; in your own time and at your own pace; with helpful support and encouragement from our friendly tutors.

Course overview

Allergic reactions, abnormal responses to normally harmless substances that can sometimes even be life threatening are an increasing problem as we are increasingly exposed to pollutants and chemicals of all kinds. The need for fast, accurate testing and holistic treatment is becoming more and more important.

Syllabus

  • Lesson One
    • Introduction – the disease of civilisation
    • Immunology
      • Antigens and antibodies
      • Immunoglobulin
      • Immunity
      • Immunisation
      • Allergy
      • Allergic reaction
      • Auto-immune disorders
      • Tissue and organ transplantation and rejection
      • Tumour immunity
      • Drugs used to affect the immune system
      • HIV and AIDS
      • Important points
      • Vaccination
  • Lesson Two
    • Immunology continued
      • Key factors in the development of allergic disease
      • Other factors creating predisposition to allergies
      • Allergies in antiquity and since
      • The increasing problem
      • How common is allergy illness becoming?
  • Lesson Three
    • Allergens
      • Four main groups
    • Symptoms
    • Allergic disease
      • Diseases with a possible allergic basis
      • Hayfever
        • Symptoms
  • Lesson Four
    • Allergic disease continued
      • Hayfever continued
        • Tree pollens
        • Grass pollens
        • Flower pollens
        • Cultivated crops
        • Mould spores
      • Allergic conjunctivitis
      • Asthma
        • Peak flow
      • Chronic obstructive airways disease
        • Drugs used
  • Lesson Five
    • Allergic disease continued
      • Eczema
        • Five main types
      • Dermatitis
        • Types and common allergens
      • Anaphylaxis
  • Lesson Six
    • Allergic disease continued
      • Coeliac disease
        • Nutritional deficiencies
        • Symptoms
        • What causes coeliac disease and who is affected?
      • Hyperactivity
        • What is the outlook?
      • Allergy or intolerance?
      • Crohn’s disease
      • Diverticulitis
  • Lesson Seven
    • Allergic disease continued
      • Migraine
        • Causes and triggers
        • The food intolerance connection
      • Candida
        • On the skin
        • In the mouth
        • In the bowel
  • Lesson Eight
    • Testing
    • Orthodox testing
      • Skin prick
      • Skin patch
      • Blood tests
    • Complementary testing
      • Muscle testing
        • Indicator muscle test
        • Preliminary preparations for testing
        • Stress release points
        • Summary of preliminaries
        • Testing – four methods
  • Lesson Nine
    • Testing continued
      • Vega testing machine
      • Dowsing
    • Allergen avoidance
      • House dust mite
      • Pollens
      • Pets
      • Skin problems
    • Treatments and remedies
      • Herbal
  • Lesson Ten
    • Medical conditions caused by food allergy
    • Additional food allergy conditions
    • Foods commonly linked to intolerance
    • Digestion
      • Digestive enzymes
      • Enzyme deficiency
      • Excess of food types
      • Stress
    • The autonomic nervous system
    • Low allergy diet
      • Divide foods into categories
    • Useful addresses
    • Identification jewellery
    • Pollen count and air pollution information

Practical training

No practical training is required to complete this course.

*Registration fee included.