Pneumonia caused by sublingual immunotherapy?

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I started a sublingual immunotherapy treatment 7 days ago prescribed by my ENT. On the 7th day of taking the drops, I began feeling very sick and my only symptom was a fever. I went to my primary doctor and he felt it was a mild general infection and prescribed some anti biotics (ZPAC). This did nothing and I finally had to go to the hospital after a 104.2 fever scare. The hospital said I had a severe case of pneumonia in the right lung. Now I have been here another 6 days (total of 12 days sick) and have been on about 3 different IV antibiotics from Zyvox, Zosyn, to Levaquin and am on breathing treatments. Now both x-rays and CT scans are showing it has spread to both of my lungs and has gotten much worse. I also now have a horrible cough. My white blood cell count has remained normal and are not elevated, which indicates my immune system is not responding and Dr's can't explain why. HIV has been ruled out and is negative. A plethora of blood, blood cultures, urine, and stool tests have also been done to test for all other illnesses and nothing can be found.

I have told the hospital Dr.'s about the drops but they don't seem to think they are a big issue. Actually, some of them didn't know what they were for. There was one Dr. who was interested in doing a bronchoscopy to see if there are oils in the lungs and since we think there might be oils in the drops this may link the two but we have not decided if we are going to do this yet due to the risks. I am beginning to suspect my immunotherapy drops have something to do with my pneumonia since there is no other explanation and I just started on them 7 days ago, which is a huge coincidence. I am also never sick, and the last time was probably 3 years ago with a common cold.

Can anyone answer if they have ever heard of anyone else having the same thing happen to them?

Also, are there oils in the shots and if so how do those oils get to the lungs from the blood?

Do the drops lower your immune system response to infections? By taking the drops an I just exposing my body to anything bad it comes into contact with?

Can anyone offer any further insight to my situation? Any information is much appreciated in helping me figure out this mystery.

[Agwithallergies]

I found your question when I Googled "sublingual drops pneumonia".  

I started on the drops less than two years ago and am currently recovering from my second bout with pneumonia.  I, too, thought the cause of the pneumonia might be related to the drops because my first illness happened within a month of initially starting on the drops.  However, at that time of my original illness, my doctor said there was no connection.  

I would be very interested to know if you have since learned any more information about a possible connection.  

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I suggest that you request/demand evaluation by the leading allergist in your area since you suspect that this was caused by allergy treatment.  If it really is realted, I think the allergist might have insight into the problem that others are missing.  

What I have heard about the drops is that they just aren't effective for treatment of allergies.  I don't think they should lower your immune system response to bugs.

I think the best thing for you would be to seen by a very good allergist.