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Allergy Science: from antibodies to anaphylaxis

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How to Stop Symptoms and Rescue People

The current management is avoiding the food, so avoiding peanut. So we've been trying something called desensitization - reprogramming immune response. It's not usually possible to do it totally, but you can certainly down-regulate the bad response and up-regulate increase the good response. We start with very small amounts of peanut by mouth, taken every day. Every two weeks, the patient comes back to our clinic, we increase the amount they're given,. Then they take that same dose at home. Takes 14 weeks to go from a very tiny dose up to taking between one and a half and two peanuts equivalent. And now you have four. The freedom to engage in

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