Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies

Post by zoky » Sat, Aug 03, 2024, 4:17 AM UTC

dminor wrote: post #132

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…

I asked our allergist about oral immunotherapy for my daughter and he cited a study that found that avoidance was more effective in preventing severe reactions.

Post by jaza » Sat, Aug 03, 2024, 4:20 AM UTC

t0mas88 wrote: post #115

cwoolfe wrote: post #105

Nuts are a very good and healthy natural snack; it's a shame they are banned by most daycares and schools now. It would be great if this became so common they could be allowed again. Without nuts...what do we have instead? Chips. granola-bars. These are highly processed foods that have other issues. Raisins or apples maybe? but they are mostly sugar. None of these options have healthy fat & protein like nuts do. What…

Oh wow, are nuts banned from US schools? Never heard of that in NL or UK. The only food requests we get from daycare and primary school are to provide healthy snacks for birthday celebrations instead of sugary. And that's a friendly request not a rule.

Post by gotoeleven » Sat, Aug 03, 2024, 4:57 AM UTC

rahimnathwani wrote: post #51

marcod wrote: post #33

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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 (…

Post by Perenti » Sat, Aug 03, 2024, 5:28 AM UTC

rconti wrote: post #46

goldieboi wrote: post #27

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This is what our allergist said. Living in Australia wife and I are both asian both eat peanuts. No peanut allergies in either families. Wife ate peanuts while pregnant but son has peanut allergy.

What's the implication here? That exposure to peanuts in utero might not help avoid peanut allergies after birth? (I'm not sure what the literature on that says) Or that there's something unusual about simply being in Australia as an infant that causes peanut sensitivity? Or that infants in Australia have less exposure to nuts?

Post by elevatedastalt » Sat, Aug 03, 2024, 5:50 AM UTC

lupusreal wrote: post #66

grecy wrote: post #34

When I worked at a wilderness summer camp I had a kid in my group that was deathly allergic to peanuts, so weeks before we had to rid the camp of them. He was about 13, and said when he was little they did that scratch allergy test on his arm and he was in a coma for six months. He carried and Epipen around but told me not to stress. If someone ate a snickers then touched a door knob, and he touched it days later he…

Sounds like obvious bullshit. His story I mean, not yours. If his allergy were as bad as he claimed he would be a bubble boy or dead. It's not as if all of society around him could be cleansed of peanut residue as the camp supposedly was. If he went anywhere public without a bubble then by his account he'd be dead.