Australia starts world-first peanut allergy treatment for babies

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.

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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.

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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.

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