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Re:Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for... by ahstilde on Thursday August 01, 2024 @11:12PM (#41135778)
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Re:Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for... by snowpid on Friday August 02, 2024 @01:41PM (#41140879)
Can you show us any peer reviewed paper ?
Re:Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for... by KennyBlanken on Friday August 02, 2024 @03:38PM (#41141919)
I tried searching pubmed but turns out there are a lot of Mana Shahs working in bio research and pharma.

The big question for me is whether this is a permanent fix or if you have to keep taking their tablets (at $99-ish a month, it looks like?)

Unfortunately this doesn't look to be covered by my insurance as the at-home test is not administered by a doctor.

Re:Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for... by snowpid on Friday August 02, 2024 @04:16PM (#41142229)
My insurance in Germany only accepts peer reviewed stuff anyway so I keep waiting.
Re:Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for... by munchbunny on Saturday August 03, 2024 @07:35AM (#41145989)
My toddler is on oral immunotherapy for peanuts, and unless he outgrows it or chooses to stop treatment, or new research comes out, he is going to be doing oral immunotherapy for life.

Fortunately, peanuts aren’t expensive. The expensive part is the trained allergist whose job is to keep up with the research, and in my case, who I suspect will be publishing interesting papers in the next few years.

Re:Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for... by helloworld42024 on Friday August 02, 2024 @03:12PM (#41141691)
This is a brilliant idea. The product and system also look extremely well put together.
Re:Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for... by KennyBlanken on Friday August 02, 2024 @03:55PM (#41142058)
How is this different or better compared to diagnostics and treatments available from allergists? At least one office in my area says they do immunotherapy and desensitization.
Re:Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for... by azinman2 on Friday August 02, 2024 @07:15PM (#41143464)
I have some allergies that the allergy doc’s test doesn’t show; he said they are there but not by histamine reaction. Do you support these?

Also, what about things like gluten and dairy sensitivity?

Re:Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for... by Atotalnoob on Friday August 02, 2024 @07:35PM (#41143561)
Most people with a gluten allergy have celiacs which is not an allergy at all, but rather an autoimmune disorder.

It’s similar enough to an allergy, though

Re:Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for... by tczMUFlmoNk on Friday August 02, 2024 @10:05PM (#41144176)
A wheat allergy, though, is fairly common: order of 1% per [1], similar to celiac. And if you're allergic to wheat, then it's suffices to avoid gluten, since wheat contains gluten.

(Also, there are forms of gluten intolerance that are neither a wheat allergy nor celiac.)

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10097276/

Re:Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for... by azinman2 on Friday August 02, 2024 @11:36PM (#41144499)
But for those of us who have non-celiac gluten sensitivity, does this help?
Re:Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for... by superfrank on Friday August 02, 2024 @09:28PM (#41144036)
I've done two rounds of sublingual drops over the past 8 years and both times I've seen no noticeable improvement. Once was directly through my doctor and the second time was through a service similar to this (Curex).

I don't doubt this works for some people, but I also don't think it works for everyone. I had much better results with shots.