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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] 5 points 10 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Sure. Worked for the dude that ate increasing amounts of poison ivy until he was immune.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Microdosing peanuts sounds wackadoo, but if it works, who cares

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I wondered why kids could be "trained" to be immune to peanuts by eating them but adults couldnt.. turns out my intuition was correct.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

If you're talking about de(hypo)sensibilization, then it does not work. At least not reliably and permanently. Been through it as a kid when it was the newest and hottest thing. Five years later after evaluation of long term data I got an excuse from my doctor and found out that general health insurance in Germany wasn't covering it anymore and the allergologic's associaton was not recommending it. That's about as close to an official, big, red "scam!" sign as at gets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Uh.... this is what most of the world does.

Kids are given tiny amounts and over time they build a resistance. Milk, peanuts, wheat.. whatever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

kids

This is for adults

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

This is dope, maybe one day I'll be able to travel SEA with a friend who is deadly allergic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

but is it like the sweeteners that give you the shits where if you stop for a month or so after not getting the shits, you get the shits again if you eat stuff with it again