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Dr. Zuhair Ballas is an immunologist with UI Health Care and University of Iowa Physicians in Iowa City. He provides allergy and immunology care for patients with immune disorders, recurrent infections, allergic disease, inflammatory symptoms, and complex immunology concerns. As a long-standing University of Iowa professor and immunology specialist, his profile helps patients find advanced immunology expertise in eastern Iowa.
Dr. Zurik Waxenghiser is an allergist with Asthma & Allergy Associates of Florida, serving patients in Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines, Plantation, and Hollywood. He treats asthma, environmental allergies, food allergy concerns, allergic rhinitis, eczema, hives, sinus symptoms, and related immune conditions. Fluent in English and Spanish, Dr. Waxenghiser helps Broward County patients identify triggers and create practical treatment plans.
Allergists are physicians trained to diagnose and manage allergic disease, asthma, eczema, hives, medication reactions, immune concerns, and food allergy risk. Use the directory to compare nearby physicians, but confirm insurance coverage, referral requirements, and testing availability with the office.
An allergist focuses on immune-system causes of symptoms, allergy testing, asthma care, immunotherapy, and reactions to foods, medicines, insects, pets, pollen, and mold. An ENT focuses on surgical and structural conditions of the ear, nose, throat, sinuses, tonsils, voice, and airway. Many patients benefit from both: an ENT may evaluate chronic sinus blockage, while an allergist identifies triggers that drive inflammation or asthma flares.
Most first visits start with a symptom history, medication review, exposure review, and focused physical exam. If skin testing is appropriate, small amounts of common allergens are placed on or under the skin and checked for a controlled reaction. Some patients need blood testing instead, especially when skin testing is not safe or medicines cannot be paused.
Ask the clinic which antihistamines or sleep aids should be stopped before the appointment, bring a list of reactions and foods or environments involved, and pack snacks, comfort items, and past test results. Tell children that testing may feel itchy or briefly uncomfortable but should not feel like a vaccine shot.