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Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies

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Post by bb123 »

rmccue wrote: post #108
bb123 wrote: post #60

It is not well known but this also works for adults too. I’m 28 and recently completed oral immunotherapy therapy for my extremely severe peanut allergy. I used to go anaphylactic from single milligram exposure and now I’m eating multiple peanuts a day. As an adult you have to go slower and be more careful but absolutely can be done and is life changing.

How long did your therapy take to get to this point?

About a year overall but I started to have meaningful protection after about 6 months. There is no one in the UK currently offering it for adults so I had to travel to a specialist clinic Atlanta a few times.

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

spike021 wrote: post #90
rahimnathwani wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I AM NOT A DOCTOR OR OTHER HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL I looked into oral immunotherapy for tree nut allergies. There's a paper from 2022: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/all.15212 They did it in a few stages: 1. First three days: test the child with increasing amounts of cashew protein, until the child has a reaction. Use the amount ingested for that reaction, to determine the single highest tolerated dose (…

For curiosity sake, curious if the tree nut allergy here was typical reactions (hives, nose, etc.)? I have a tree nut "allergy" but doctors always call it more of a "hypersensitivity" because my reactions are usually involving terrible stomach cramps and pain accompanied occasionally by swollen throat (more so for almonds than cashews). I've wondered if it's worth trying to do this myself.

Why wouldn’t you see the doctor? Cost? Not covered by insurance?

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Post by WhitneyLand »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #51
marcod wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for being nosy, but did you do oral immunotherapy with or without professional support?

I AM NOT A DOCTOR OR OTHER HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL I looked into oral immunotherapy for tree nut allergies. There's a paper from 2022: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/all.15212 They did it in a few stages: 1. First three days: test the child with increasing amounts of cashew protein, until the child has a reaction. Use the amount ingested for that reaction, to determine the single highest tolerated dose (…

Ok I’ll bite - Wouldn’t have guessed it necessary to bookend a comment with all caps disclaimers, yet it’s happening, so I’m going to guess you have an interesting or cautionary anecdote around it we can possibly learn from?

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Post by ugh123 »

eskibars wrote: post #9

Our son is very allergic to peanuts and less so to cashew, and sesame. We went through oral immunotherapy and it's been absolutely life changing. He used to need an epi pen in case of chance encounter, but now he eats 2 whole peanut m&ms every day to keep his dosage up. It's been difficult finding an allergist in Germany that's willing to accept this and move forward Obviously everyone's mileage will vary, but I'm ha…

> It's been difficult finding an allergist in Germany that's willing to accept this and move forward

What are they saying? They don't believe in oral immunotherapy?

Re: Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies

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Post by rahimnathwani »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #124
rahimnathwani wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I AM NOT A DOCTOR OR OTHER HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL I looked into oral immunotherapy for tree nut allergies. There's a paper from 2022: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/all.15212 They did it in a few stages: 1. First three days: test the child with increasing amounts of cashew protein, until the child has a reaction. Use the amount ingested for that reaction, to determine the single highest tolerated dose (…

Ok I’ll bite - Wouldn’t have guessed it necessary to bookend a comment with all caps disclaimers, yet it’s happening, so I’m going to guess you have an interesting or cautionary anecdote around it we can possibly learn from?

Nope. Just being cautious!

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Post by rahimnathwani »

spike021 wrote: post #90
rahimnathwani wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I AM NOT A DOCTOR OR OTHER HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL I looked into oral immunotherapy for tree nut allergies. There's a paper from 2022: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/all.15212 They did it in a few stages: 1. First three days: test the child with increasing amounts of cashew protein, until the child has a reaction. Use the amount ingested for that reaction, to determine the single highest tolerated dose (…

For curiosity sake, curious if the tree nut allergy here was typical reactions (hives, nose, etc.)? I have a tree nut "allergy" but doctors always call it more of a "hypersensitivity" because my reactions are usually involving terrible stomach cramps and pain accompanied occasionally by swollen throat (more so for almonds than cashews). I've wondered if it's worth trying to do this myself.

Sudden loss of appetite, followed soon by nausea, and then vomiting.

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Post by mmikeff »

eskibars wrote: post #9

Our son is very allergic to peanuts and less so to cashew, and sesame. We went through oral immunotherapy and it's been absolutely life changing. He used to need an epi pen in case of chance encounter, but now he eats 2 whole peanut m&ms every day to keep his dosage up. It's been difficult finding an allergist in Germany that's willing to accept this and move forward Obviously everyone's mileage will vary, but I'm ha…

Our daughter too, she’s been on a maintenance dose equivalent to two peanuts, once a week. It’s been life changing. She’s had several trips to A&E before the treatment but after a few years she was able to tolerate a dose equivalent to ten peanuts (although that still made her quite nauseous).

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Post by spike021 »

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #122
spike021 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For curiosity sake, curious if the tree nut allergy here was typical reactions (hives, nose, etc.)? I have a tree nut "allergy" but doctors always call it more of a "hypersensitivity" because my reactions are usually involving terrible stomach cramps and pain accompanied occasionally by swollen throat (more so for almonds than cashews). I've wondered if it's worth trying to do this myself.

Why wouldn’t you see the doctor? Cost? Not covered by insurance?

I have in the past but they weren't much of a help. Allergy scratch test results didn't correlate at all.

They referred me to a throat doctor to make sure it wasn't anything in my digestive system. So ended up doing an endoscopy. No notable findings there either.

So never been given any kind of ideas of things to try other than keeping a food journal, which has been useless to me.

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Post by simonswords82 »

spacebanana7 wrote: post #76
Obscurity4340 wrote: post #74

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Is this effective and available for milder chronic hayfever and runny,partially blocked nose, generally speaking?

I've heard that consuming honey from your local variety of bees can help - but the evidence base isn't great [1] [1] https://www.honeyshoney.co.uk/blogs/news/local-honey-and-hay...

This is nonsense. It doesn’t work.
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