Allergy & Asthma Care Centers

I’ve been going here for the past 4 months and I’m glad I chose this place. The initial assessment to determine the allergies was good — the staff are very Nice here. They diagnosed well and the treatment is working well. Several people come here regularly to get their shots. I highly recommend.

I am happy that I found Dr. Swamy. She is excellent. I took my son who is only two and has some bad skin irritations. Not only, she prescribed efficient medication for him, but she was able to identify other severe allergies he had. She is very professional, down to earth, and very knowledgeable. The nurses are very nice too. Highly recommend this place.

THIS IS A SCAM! Do not book appointments here!
I made an appointment specifically because this practice says they take my insurance. The morning of the appointment, I get a phone call telling me that my appointment time is no longer available and that I can reschedule. I had to take off work for the appointment, so more than a two-​hour notice that you have given my appointment time away to someone else for some reason would be appreciated.
Then, they reschedule me for later in the day but tell me they actually do not take my insurance after all, even though they said they did when I made the appointment! So they wanted me to come in and just pay out of pocket.
They are lying about having appointment times available and lying about which insurance they take so they can trick people into coming in and paying out of pocket.
Avoid this place and find a legitimate practice!

I switched allergist after almost 15 years and I’m confident I made the right decision. The nurses at this location are on the ball, unlike the previous practice I use.
Dr. Swamy is great, and for now (since she is new to this office) she is relatively available at short notice which is great. I only wish they didn’t close on Wednesday’s. The practice is strange in that I believe they have more offices than they doctors, so most doctors work in multiple places.

I didn’t get the nurse’s name but she was sweet and explained everything she was doing while prepping for testing, and Dr. Swamy was great. She was personable, super knowledgeable and way more helpful than any doctor I’ve been to recently.

My husband and I have been going here for years. The staff are so helpful and attentive and always willing to help in a pinch over the phone. I literally didn’t get to sit down in the waiting room because they are so on schedule. They do push for allergy tests but understand if your insurance doesn’t cover it. Highly recommend.

This place rocks. The nurse (Danielle) a total sweetheart, and Dr Swamy is awesome too. She’s easy to talk to, very understanding, and responsive. I got my initial appointment in very quickly — I filled out a form online on a Friday, they called within a few minutes, and I had an appointment for the following Tuesday. After my appointment, the doctor was very fast and responsive to my follow up questions. Thank you!

Avoid this place at all costs.
I kept breaking out in hives every fall and tried coming to this place for help. I’ve no idea why I continued coming here, which I blame on my own stupidity. Every time I went over the course of a year, I saw a different doctor.
— First doctor said she wouldn’t test me because apparently, they don’t test people for hives.
— Another doctor ran some tests, couldn’t find anything, and said it must just be flowers and they don’t test for that.
— A third doctor told me «adults don’t develop food allergies.» For the record — multiple people in my family developed food allergies as adults. She told me the reaction I experienced clearly was not related to food. When I asked her to explain a reaction to me, she repeated my symptoms VERBATIM. When I asked why my description of the exact same thing didn’t equal an allergic reaction, she had no response. It was flabbergasting.
— Not a single one would do skin testing on me. Flat out refused to do it.
After I ended up in the hospital from such a sever reaction, I found a doctor at GWU (which I highly recommend). It turns out, I am highly allergic to dust, dust mites, and the Aleve/​Advil family. I’m thankfully I found a doctor willing to help and regret that I wasted so much time at this facility.
Please, for your safety, avoid this clinic.

I called and got an appointment the same day. The doctors are very good and helped me get the right prescriptions to manage my allergies and asthma. I would highly recommend them.

I have never had good experiences with doctors in the DC Metro area, but I was pleasantly surprised with what a wonderful visit I had recently. It has been decades since my asthma was last checked so the doctor/​nurse ran a test for that and did a skin test for allergies. They were able to help me narrow down the triggers and set-​up a plan for prevention & maintenance. They sent me home with plenty of samples and prescriptions and I am looking forward to my follow-​up in 2 months. I have not had to use my rescue inhaler since starting the treatment!

I have been coming here for years since it has been difficult for me to achieve maintenance with my shots due to the length of all my travels. Recently in the beginning of December 2011, the doctor informed me that they were changing the vendor of the serums and I would have to start from the beginning to achieve maintenance. Unhappy about that, but what can you do? I was told that it could be either days or weeks until the new serum is ready but that I would receive a call once it was. Over 30 days later, I had yet to receive a call, so I finally called them to ask them what was going on. They had simply forgotten to give me a call and the serum was ready at the beginning of December. I had mentioned to them how it would be important for me to start up the new serum as soon as possible due to being in town for all of December (and NOT traveling) so I could hit maintenance before I went off traveling again in this month of January.
When I called, I hardly received an apology and worse, the administrative assistant or nurse on the phone told me to «HANG ON» while she picked up her iPhone (the distinct iPhone ringtone rang in the background) to have a casual conversation with a friend or family member. A mind-​blowing, horrid experience.

Very nice experience. Have always had some suspected allergies and finally got around to making an appt. to look into them. I had no idea where to go and did not find much as far as reviews, so I went with the closest Allergy Care Center in Ballston (they can thank their advertising I guess).
I didn’t wait too long (part of the wait was spent filling out forms). After the nurse took my stats, Dr. Tompkins came in and asked me many questions (like a detective) to determine possible sources of discomfort for 15 – 20 minutes. He comes off as a very genial character with a kind smile. He had the nurse come in with trays of liquid drops to put on my skin (no scratch test) and took some blood for possible food allergies. I waited 20 minutes to check for reactions and Dr. Tompkins returned to discuss the results, which was probably another 15 minutes of his time. He wasn’t convinced about a lack of reaction to a cat allergy test, so he had it done again with another type of test (ok – this may have been a scratch… no pun intended) and waited another 20 minutes. I had a pretty large reaction to it and he came in chuckling saying, «Oh boy, no kitty cats for you!»). I appreciated his friendly approach No problem as far as I am concerned… and thankfully I am good to go with dogs. I was really surprised at how much time he took given the way most docs farm you in and out.
The one drawback: The office is quite dated and I was taken aback that instructive signs were handwritten (as opposed to printed from a computer). It reminded me of a DC public office in the Marion days. The office almost looks like it could be set up and taken down overnight… but the professionalism of the staff allayed my concerns.