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Dreamcatcher Junior Artist Username: Dreamcatcher Post Number: 380 Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 131.131.1.131 Rating: N/A |
Treating allergies with the very substance that presents life-threatening danger is “the wave of the future,” says Dr. Jeffery Adelglass, an allergist in Plano, Texas. A number of studies presented this weekend at the meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology are riding that wave. Here's hope for peanut allergy sufferers: The latest results from trials involving peanuts show that giving children who are allergic to them small amounts of peanuts daily results in tolerance of 15 peanuts at a time. The study, led by researchers at Duke University and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, did a randomized trial on 23 children, 15 of whom received the immunotherapy and eight took a placebo. They also found that nine out of 12 children allergic to peanuts, who did immunotherapy for 32 to 61 months, could incorporate peanuts in their diets four weeks after stopping the therapy. Read more about this study at Health.com. The results are promising, but the sample size is small, Adelglass noted. “I think that we’re at the beginning of a long process,” he said. He also noted that in general patients would probably have to stay on oral immunotherapy for life to ensure that an allergic person’s immune system would continue to tolerate the offending foods. There's also good news coming from similar research in the United Kingdom, presented recently at the annual meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. Researchers are about to begin a trial with more than 100 participants to continue investigating the technique for peanut allergies. http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/01/danger-foods-a llergy-treatment/?hpt=Sbin |