Posted on 02/07/2022 12:33:41 PM PST by Red Badger
New research suggests probiotics can improve the safety and lessen side effects of a promising treatment for peanut allergiesDepositphotos VIEW 1 IMAGES
For around the past decade, a research group led by the Australia's Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) has been investigating treatments for peanut allergies in children, and study by study, they are making some exciting progress. The latest results have reaffirmed the team's promising earlier findings, and also teased out new insights around long-term treatment outcomes and how side effects might be kept to a minimum.
With around three percent of babies born with an allergy to peanuts, the condition poses a serious problem for parents trying to avoid adverse reactions, especially as they start to walk and shove random things in their mouths, mingle at birthday parties and hit the schoolyard. Through a series of multi-year studies, the MCRI team has been exploring potential treatments that combine probiotics with what's known as oral immunotherapy.
The probiotic in question is a bacteria called Lactobacillus rhamnosus, which can be found in yoghurt and dairy products, while the oral immunotherapy involves giving allergic children small doses of peanut protein each day, gradually increasing it to a daily dose of two grams (0.7 oz) to build up their tolerance.
This proved highly effective in a trial involving more than 60 children, with results published back in 2015 showing that 82 percent of the treated children were able to safely eat peanuts a few weeks after conclusion of the therapy. The real question was whether these results were long-lasting, and a follow-up study published in 2017 provided some compelling answers.
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Damn. When did it become this bad?
My son has one. Not severe....thank goodness.
When they started innoculating kids with about a dozen injections the moment they were born.
I don’t remember kids ever having peanut allergies when I was a kid.
I don’t either.
No, we just heard of kids choking to death on peanuts, which you never hear of these days.
I wonder/speculate that what they thought was choking on a peanut was actually an anaphylactic reaction and they didn’t know it at the time.
Maybe but TBO I don’t even remember that either
My son has a severe peanut allergy (ER if he gets any). This is interesting info. Thanks.
I don’t remember kids dying of peanut butter when I was young.
Me either. In fact, peanut butter sandwiches were served in the lunchroom. Not nowadays.
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