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Title    Oral Immunotherapy Study Demonstrates Safety in Treating Preschool Peanut Allergies
Date    Sunday April 21 2019, @10:06PM
Author    mrpg
Topic   
from the snoopy dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/04/21/0329246

RandomFactor writes:

A real world safety-study of peanut oral immunotherapy (P-OIT) for peanut allergies in preschoolers resulted in ~90% of study participants safely reaching the maintenance stage of the treatment.

We are the first group to describe preschool P-OIT in a real-world multicenter setting. The treatment appears to be safe for the vast majority of patients because symptoms were generally mild and very few reactions received epinephrine; however, life-threatening reactions in a minority of patients (0.4%) can still occur.

Oral Immunotherapy consists of a lengthy process

Oral immunotherapy starts off by giving a patient a small amount of the food [they are] allergic to -- in this case, peanuts -- and then steadily increasing the amount of that food until they reach maximum dosage. This works to desensitize the person to the food to the point that it doesn't cause a dangerous, allergic reaction.

The research was done at multiple clinics across Canada on children between 9 months and five years of age.

OIT is not a cure and requires ongoing maintenance to maintain desensitization to the allergen. If the maintenance dosage is stopped resensitization may occur.


Original Submission

Links

  1. "RandomFactor" - https://soylentnews.org/~RandomFactor/
  2. "study" - https://www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S2213-2198(19)30383-6/abstract
  3. "~90% of study participants safely reaching the maintenance stage" - https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/04/17/Oral-immunotherapy-for-peanut-allergy-safe-for-preschoolers/9131555512283/?sl=20
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=33130

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