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by nostrademons
848 days ago
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There's also oral immunotherapy, where you give children increasing amounts of peanut (or other food allergens) to desensitize their immune system. Initial studies showed it was effective in achieving desensitization in 71% of patients (vs. 2% of controls) and remission in 21% (vs. 2% of controls): https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/oral-im... It's largely limited to young children (the immune system under age 5 is more resilient than it gets later), but for parents that are willing to front the fairly considerable expense and inconvenience up front, it does offer the prospect of actually outgrowing the peanut allergy and not suffering from it as an adult. |
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