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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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[–] b_tr3e 3 points 1 day 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.