Skin and Allergy Hospital is in Helsinki , Meilahti district in the hospital . It belongs to HUS -kuntayhtymä Helsinki University Central Hospital -sairaanhoitoalueeseen. It treats patients in the fields of skin and venereal diseases and allergology . The hospital is divided into a clinic for skin and venereal diseases, which houses an outpatient clinic, a ward , a day ward , a light treatment center and a venereal disease clinic, and an allergy clinic, which houses an outpatient clinic and pediatric and adult wards. The hospital also has an allergy research center, an allergen laboratory and a skin pathology laboratory.

The skin and allergy hospital conducts clinical research related to the treatment of atopic dermatitis , psoriasis , asthma and skin cancers , among others . The hospital is the first in the country to start food tolerance for children (eg milk, wheat and nuts). New treatments for pollen allergy are available. Hay fever is aided by „timothy tablets“ that dissolve under the tongue in seconds.