I'll make sure my kids eat (some) peanuts/peanut products before they develop an allergy.
Works in Israel, kids start eating light peanut snacks at 3 months and nut allergies are much rarer.
New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential
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Re: New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential
#22I’m really curious to see how much Aimmune charges for their drug, which the article states is just defatted peanut flour. Of course, a lot of money went into the regulatory process of running the trials and getting it approved, but I still suspect people will be critical if they charge $15,000 per year for it.
In a similar Guardian article, the treatment course is stated to cost £17,000 GBP. Hopefully available free via NHS soon as I have a daughter with nut allergies.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/18/peanut-aller...
Re: New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential
#23This sounds very similar to a treatment that my daughter is due to start next year at a Cambridge allergy clinic in the UK. She'll have to take the peanut based medication every day. She will have the initial dose in a hospital in case she has a reaction and then take the remainder of the doses home. Every two weeks we'll go back to the hospital to increase the dose. I'm very excited about the potential for this to k…
Please don't call it medication. It's peanut protein plain and simple. People have done this gradually increasing exposure method on their own for years - though it can be dangerous to do so and is not recommended (I might try it myself, but would not have my child do it). It's not a big medical breakthrough, it's a highly controlled increasing dose of peanut protein.
Re: New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential
#24>> The goal of the treatment is not to cure the allergy or enable children to eat peanut butter sandwiches, but to reduce the risk that an accidental exposure to trace amounts will trigger a life-threatening reaction in someone with a severe allergy, and relieve the fear and anxiety that go along with severe peanut allergies.
If ever a hedge a hedge there was, this is it: This works really well and they can eat a couple peanuts, but we don't actually know why or how or to what extent it's dependable...
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#25Israeli scientists have already shown that early childhood exposure to peanuts can prevent these allergies.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-kids-help-prove-early-...
Also, peanut allergies hardly affect anyone. As a society, why waste resources on such endeavors when we have diseases like cancer that affect millions every year?
Re: New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential
#26Israeli scientists have already shown that early childhood exposure to peanuts can prevent these allergies. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-kids-help-prove-early-... Also, peanut allergies hardly affect anyone. As a society, why waste resources on such endeavors when we have diseases like cancer that affect millions every year?
* In kids that don't already have the allergy. In which case early exposure may kill them.
Re: New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential
#27Israeli scientists have already shown that early childhood exposure to peanuts can prevent these allergies. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-kids-help-prove-early-... Also, peanut allergies hardly affect anyone. As a society, why waste resources on such endeavors when we have diseases like cancer that affect millions every year?
* In kids that don't already have the allergy. In which case early exposure may kill them.
Even kids with allergies benefit.
"—Among children with some reaction to peanuts on the skin test: Only 11 percent of peanut eaters developed an allergy versus 35 percent of abstainers."
Re: New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential
#28I'll make sure my kids eat (some) peanuts/peanut products before they develop an allergy.
This didn't work for my son. He had peanuts and peanut butter several times before developing the allergy :-/
Re: New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential
#29Israeli scientists have already shown that early childhood exposure to peanuts can prevent these allergies. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-kids-help-prove-early-... Also, peanut allergies hardly affect anyone. As a society, why waste resources on such endeavors when we have diseases like cancer that affect millions every year?
Hardly anyone? Already hitting 1 in 50 children in the UK.
Re: New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential
#30This sounds very similar to a treatment that my daughter is due to start next year at a Cambridge allergy clinic in the UK. She'll have to take the peanut based medication every day. She will have the initial dose in a hospital in case she has a reaction and then take the remainder of the doses home. Every two weeks we'll go back to the hospital to increase the dose. I'm very excited about the potential for this to k…
Please don't call it medication. It's peanut protein plain and simple. People have done this gradually increasing exposure method on their own for years - though it can be dangerous to do so and is not recommended (I might try it myself, but would not have my child do it). It's not a big medical breakthrough, it's a highly controlled increasing dose of peanut protein.
According to Webster, Definition of medicine
1a : a substance or preparation used in treating disease
I think taking a prescribed amount of peanut protein to treat this allergy fits that definition.