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Adults With Life-Threatening Peanut Allergy Can Desensitize With Daily Doses, ‘Life-Changing’ Study Shows (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
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The first clinical trial to test whether adults with peanut allergies can be desensitized has shown great success—with two-thirds of participants able to consume the equivalent of five peanuts at the end of the study without reacting.

Known as oral immunotherapy, the approach has been successful in infants and children worldwide, but this first-of-its-kind study—the Grown Up Peanut Immunotherapy trial—shows adults can benefit too.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

I dont know if she was a part of this study, but a lady i worked with about 3 years ago was doing this (in a controlled environment). We had to have a staff meeting one day where the entire team needed to learn how to use her epipen in case it didnt go as planned. Was a wild fucking go