New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years (theguardian.com)

Using a new kind of immunotherapy treatment, Australian researchers have managed to cure a majority of the children in their study suffering from a peanut allergy. "The desensitization to peanuts persisted for up to four years after treatment," reports The Guardian. From the report: Tang, an immunologist and allergist, pioneered a new form of treatment that combines a probiotic with peanut oral immunotherapy, known as PPOIT. Instead of avoiding the allergen, the treatment is designed to reprogram the immune system's response to peanuts and eventually develop a tolerance. It's thought that combining the probiotic with the immunotherapy gives the immune system the "nudge" it needs to do this, according to Tang. Forty-eight children were enrolled in the PPOIT trial and were randomly given either a combination of the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus with peanut protein in increasing amounts, or a placebo, once daily for 18 months. At the end of the original trial in 2013, 82% of children who received the immunotherapy treatment were deemed tolerant to peanuts compared with just 4% in the placebo group. Four years later, the majority of the children who gained initial tolerance were still eating peanuts as part of their normal diet and 70% passed a further challenge test to confirm long-term tolerance. The results have been published in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.

Comments

Peanuts are an abomination!

[Narcocide]

So sayeth The Lord.

do not want

[Anonymous Coward]

My snowflake is perfect as is. You need to check your peanut privilege.

So if I say I'm allergic to idiots ??

[Salgak1]

. . . I can force others to keep them away from me ??

(OK, it was worth a shot. . . . )

Re:When I was in school

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My country is more liberal than yours. I see nothing like that here. I blame your flag. Just as well-founded.