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Sublingual Allergy Drops
Tired of suffering from your allergy symptoms? Sublingual immunotherapy, or allergy drops, may be right for you. This effective treatment can not only help reduce the overall severity of your symptoms, it can improve your quality of life.
Allergy & Asthma Treatment
Whether you’re living with asthma or allergies, our innovative treatment plans combine traditional medicine with functional medicine to focus on finding the root cause of illness and improving your quality of life.
Clinical Research Institute
We are committed to innovation in every aspect of medicine. Through our multi-specialty clinical research center, patients can participate in clinical trials. Participants in these trials receive personal attention from our dedicated, compassionate staff and study-related medical care free of charge.
We now offer oral immunotherapy to treat food allergy!
Patients with reactions triggered by food typically have either a food sensitivity or a food allergy. At AAPRI, we’re proud to be the only practice in Rhode Island to offer oral immunotherapy (OIT), which can effectively help you overcome your food allergy.
We can do an assessment to confirm if you have a true food allergy and treat you with OIT when appropriate. Contact us today to find out if OIT might be right for you!

Allergy & Asthma Assessment
A comprehensive allergy and asthma assessment is an essential step in obtaining an accurate diagnosis and an effective treatment for allergies and asthma.
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The Functional Allergist I HAVE A DIFFERENT APPROACH AND PERSPECTIVE to treating asthma and allergy because of my personal journey. I had severe asthma as a child and it controlled my life. Once I identified dust mites as my key trigger, my world (and my […]
At AAPRI, we’re excited to offer oral immunotherapy (OIT) for people with certain types of food allergy. The goal of OIT is to not only provide greater protection against accidentally eating the allergen, but to make it possible to consume the food without any reaction. Is OIT right for you or your child with food allergy? In this article, we talk with Dr. Vikram Malik, AAPRI’s food allergy specialist about OIT testing and what AAPRI’s OIT protocol entails.
As one of Rhode Island’s top physicians, Dr. Z gets asked a lot of questions about allergies and asthma on a daily basis. In the past, we’ve shared Dr. Z’s Top 3 FAQs, which looks at some of the most common questions patients ask. Now […]