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Entries in peanut desensitization (2)

Thursday
Nov232017

Peanut Desensitization Success & Animal Allergies

8/17/17:  Peanut Desensitization Success

A small clinical trial conducted at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute has led to two-thirds of children treated with an experimental immunotherapy treatment being cured of their allergy. Importantly, this desensitization to peanuts persisted for up to four years after treatment. When the 18-month long experiment ended in 2013 some 80 percent of the kids were able to tolerate peanuts.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-australian-peanut-allergy-breakthrough.html

8/23/17:  Food Allergies in Animals like that of Humans

According to University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna, animals suffer from food allergies also. "In the case of dogs, cats or horses, however, the adverse reactions mostly affect the skin, followed by the gastrointestinal tract. 'Asthma or severe shock reactions have rarely been observed in animals,' notes Pali-Schöll."  The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) is dedicating a group to concentrate on this issue.  Perhaps learning answers for animals will help humans as well.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170823094121.htm

Saturday
Jul082017

Peanut Skin Patch

6/15/2017: Peanut Skin Patch

A study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and led by by Hugh Sampson, MD, of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York found that after one year, "researchers assessed each participant’s ability to consume at least 10 times more peanut protein than he or she was able to consume before starting EPIT...The patches were developed and provided by the biopharmaceutical company DBV Technologies under the trade name Viaskin. Each day, study participants applied a new patch to their arm or between their shoulder blades."

http://www.allergyandasthmacare.com/2017/06/index.html