Peanut Allergy Treatment Update & Egg Allergy Study
April 26, 2008
My Daily Dosage Update
After 11 months, my daily peanut allergy treatment dosage is now approx. the equivalent of 9 1/2 peanut kernals! When I first started in the peanut allergy treatment research study, my daily dosage was only like a few grains of sand.
Peanut Allergy Treatment Success
Source: The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
The goal of the study by Scott D. Nash, MD and colleagues at Duke University, Durham, NC was to determine if peanut oral immunotherapy (OIT) can desensitize peanut allergic children to peanut protein. ... Read more of the article "Oral Peanut Immunotherapy for Children with Peanut Allergy".
Egg Allergy Treatment Study Participants Needed
Our great friends at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock wanted us to help spread the word about the opportunity for children over the age of six to participate in their ongoing Oral Desensitization Clinical Research for treatment of egg allergy.