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The first clinical trial to test whether adults with peanut allergies can be desensitized has shown great success—with two-thirds of participants able to consume the equivalent of five peanuts at the end of the study without reacting.

Known as oral immunotherapy, the approach has been successful in infants and children worldwide, but this first-of-its-kind study—the Grown Up Peanut Immunotherapy trial—shows adults can benefit too.

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[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

you can also train yourself to not be lactose intolerant. However you will poop your guts out for weeks before seeing improvement.
Also it doesn't work for some people

(obligatory I'm not a scientist, I just watched a YouTube video)

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

I wish

At least having to get rid or my litre per day milk habit saw me lose weight

[-] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 5 days ago

Personal experience causes me to doubt.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

"Honey, did you see my peanut for today?"

[-] Goretantath@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

I wondered why kids could be "trained" to be immune to peanuts by eating them but adults couldnt.. turns out my intuition was correct.

[-] b_tr3e@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

If you're talking about de(hypo)sensibilization, then it does not work. At least not reliably and permanently. Been through it as a kid when it was the newest and hottest thing. Five years later after evaluation of long term data I got an excuse from my doctor and found out that general health insurance in Germany wasn't covering it anymore and the allergologic's associaton was not recommending it. That's about as close to an official, big, red "scam!" sign as at gets.

[-] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

I dont know if she was a part of this study, but a lady i worked with about 3 years ago was doing this (in a controlled environment). We had to have a staff meeting one day where the entire team needed to learn how to use her epipen in case it didnt go as planned. Was a wild fucking go

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Microdosing peanuts sounds wackadoo, but if it works, who cares

[-] ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

This is dope, maybe one day I'll be able to travel SEA with a friend who is deadly allergic.

[-] KbSez@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Uh.... this is what most of the world does.

Kids are given tiny amounts and over time they build a resistance. Milk, peanuts, wheat.. whatever.

[-] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago
[-] KbSez@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

But in most countries to get rid of it as children.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

huh??? all mammals start out lactose tolerant, drinking milk as infants is the defining feature of being a mammal! and most people aren't peanut/wheat/whatever intolerant ever..

[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Lactose intolerant is different. Young mammals produce an enzyme that breaks lactose up allowing digestion. Most stop producing it as an adult. Without it the lactose is able to pass through most of the digestive system intact.

When it gets to the colon where bacteria that can eat it lives. They start eating it and producing gas and other by products in large amounts.

This is very different then the immune response to say peanuts or wheat.

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