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Injection-free treatment for milk and peanut allergies?
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By ingesting small, doctor-monitored quantities of peanuts and nuts, kids can be immunized against potentially deadly peanut allergies, according to a new study. By taking medically supervised doses of nuts, doctors hope that they can safely desensitize the bodies of peanut-allergic children and allow them to eventually safely eat them. It makes perfect sense, really -- this is the way vaccines have worked for years, why not nuts?In the same vein, new studies suggest that injection-free treatments may also work for milk -- and that four out of five children who are allergic to milk, egg or wheat may be able to safely start eating those foods by school age.
The same study also suggested that women who eat a lot of peanuts and drink a lot of milk during pregnancy, may actually protect their unborn baby against future food allergies. The research is quite compelling, but I'm not so sure: I drank boat loads of milk when I was pregnant (it was the Holy Grail of Goodness for me and I'd down a 4-liter container in a few days) and my son's been allergic since day one. But it is encouraging that a "cure" for allergies might be available, without all the scary needles.
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3-19-2008 @ 11:56AM
Meagan said...Oh for crying out loud. Can they make up their damn minds? By the time I'm pregnant I expect them to advise avoiding tin foil and to never face east in order to insure the baby doesn't develop asthma.
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3-19-2008 @ 12:27PM
Sabrina said...I don't know, it seems to me that avoidance is the only way to go. My kids are allergic to milk, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, oats, pinto beans, carrots, pineapple, bananas, cinnamon and bay leaves. I ate tons of peanuts and drank tons of lactose-free milk when I was pregnant with the second one, and none with the first, and it didn't seem to make a difference either way.
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3-19-2008 @ 1:11PM
Meagan said...I'm sorry if I'm an idiot, but can you link to the article? I've missed the obvious before, so if you've already got it linked and I'm just not seeing it, I apologize and please just point it out to me! Thanks.
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3-19-2008 @ 6:35PM
Kristin said...Sorry Megan, I can't believe I forgot the link! It's added now.
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3-19-2008 @ 7:29PM
Margaret said...Kristen, is your son lactose or cascien intolerant? There's a big difference in terms of what he can and can't eat.
Does all dairy make him sick, or just milk?
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4-04-2008 @ 12:46AM
Natural Allergy Relief said...Its all just too confusing, we need simple way to get natural allergy relief.
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