Elizabethtown College Health Services offers the service of continuing maintenance immunotherapy in order to provide continuity of care for the student.  Care is based on the awareness and approval of the prescribing Allergist along with a detailed schedule.  Students must supply their own allergy extract as prescribed by their Allergist.

Any student just beginning immunotherapy will be required to receive injections when the physician is on site, the duration to be determined by the Health Center staff. 

Allergy injections are given only when our Nurse Practitioner or Physician are in the building.  The Physician is here 3 times/weekly for 1 hour, the remaining times are covered by the Nurse Practitioner.  Allergy injections can be given daily, Monday thru Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.  An appointment is necessary.

Students are required to have 2 Epi-Pens prescribed, one to carry with them on the day of injection, the other to keep at the Health Center.   All the necessary consent/permission slips must be signed by the Allergist and the student before therapy can begin.

Instructions for receiving allergy injections

Requirements for administration:

• Signed permission from the Allergist who ordered the extract.
• Vials labeled with extract contents.
• Two (2) epipens per student-1 to keep at the Health Center and the 2nd for the student to keep.
• Each student will sign an informed consent prior to the first allergy shot given at the Health Center.

Permission sheet should also include:

• Specific orders for administration-The first shot of each new vial must be given in your allergist's office, unless your allergist has given his/her consent that it may be given in the Health Center
• Contents of extract
• Treatment for reactions
• Allergist must send instructions and protocols along with the allergy extract, complete with student's dosage and schedule of injections.  Bottles must be labeled with student's name.

All allergy injections are given only by appointment.

• All Students must wait in the Health Center for 30 minutes after receiving injections to monitor any reactions.

• A fee of $1.00 per syringe is charged which may be paid at the time of the injection or at the end of the semester.