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Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial

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Re: Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial

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Physician-scientist here. My graduate work was in an immunology lab. Just wanted to clear up some confusion I've seen in multiple posts. While both peanut allergy and celiac disease involve pathogenic immune responses, they represent very different types of problems and this study's results do not suggest any relevance to celiac. The peanut allergies that they are referring to in this study are one of the most striki…

Since you know a lot about this, can you tell me about diary allergies that cause skin reactions? My partner doesn't have a traditional dairy allergy where here bowels go haywire. She does sometimes feel worse though. The most frustrating symptom for her however is that it always gives her acne. I could find very little to know scholarly articles for this type of allergic reaction.

Re: Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial

#172

Physician-scientist here. My graduate work was in an immunology lab. Just wanted to clear up some confusion I've seen in multiple posts. While both peanut allergy and celiac disease involve pathogenic immune responses, they represent very different types of problems and this study's results do not suggest any relevance to celiac. The peanut allergies that they are referring to in this study are one of the most striki…

Since you know a lot about this, can you tell me about diary allergies that cause skin reactions? My partner doesn't have a traditional dairy allergy where here bowels go haywire. She does sometimes feel worse though. The most frustrating symptom for her however is that it always gives her acne. I could find very little to know scholarly articles for this type of allergic reaction.

Would love to know about dairy allergies as well, skin reactions as well as sinus congestion/post-nasal drip

Re: Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial

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The AAP also recently changed its guidelines for introducing peanuts to babies based on a study [1] showing a pretty dramatic decline in the development of the allergy with early exposure vs total avoidance. [1] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1414850#abstract

Huh. My wife and I deliberately did the opposite of the "avoid exposure to allergens (especially nuts)" guidelines for kids because it seemed like obviously ass-backwards, stupid advice, considering that rates of kids with serious food allergies seemed to have gone up like 10x under those guidelines vs. when we were kids and everyone just fed their kids peanut butter (and everything else) ASAP and serious food allerg…

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Re: Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial

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post #91

The AAP also recently changed its guidelines for introducing peanuts to babies based on a study [1] showing a pretty dramatic decline in the development of the allergy with early exposure vs total avoidance. [1] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1414850#abstract

Huh. My wife and I deliberately did the opposite of the "avoid exposure to allergens (especially nuts)" guidelines for kids because it seemed like obviously ass-backwards, stupid advice, considering that rates of kids with serious food allergies seemed to have gone up like 10x under those guidelines vs. when we were kids and everyone just fed their kids peanut butter (and everything else) ASAP and serious food allerg…

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