Nearly 80 percent of peanut - allergic preschool children successfully incorporated peanut - containing foods into their diets after receiving
peanut oral immunotherapy (OIT), a clinical trial has found.
Not exact matches
The researchers examined blood samples taken from
peanut - allergic volunteers enrolled in an
oral immunotherapy study.
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Oral immunotherapy is safe, effective for
peanut - allergic preschoolers, study suggests.»
Oral immunotherapy for
peanut allergy induces early, distinct changes in immune T - cell populations that potentially may help researchers determine which people will respond well to the therapy and which immune mechanisms are involved in the response, a new study suggests.
But for the first time, children with a potentially lethal
peanut allergy have essentially been cured using an
oral immunotherapy.
The treatment, known as
oral immunotherapy, exposes an allergic child to increasing amounts of
peanuts or egg over a period of years.