A new study from researchers at Stanford University is offering promising news for the more than one million kids and teens with peanut allergies.
There may be hope on the horizon for the 1.2 million children and teens battling a peanut allergy. In a study released Thursday, researchers from Stanford University released a pilot study revealing that they have found an injection that could stave off peanut allergies for several weeks at a time.
The injection, made up of an antibody known as “Etokimab,” targets the protein that causes a “cascade” of allergic reactions in the body. Researchers conclude that it has the potential to “desensitize peanut-allergic participants” and prevent life-threatening events following exposure. “What’s great about this treatment as an option for food allergies is that people did not have to eat the food to get desensitized,” says Nadeau. “We [could] potentially inhibit features of all allergies, which is promising,” she said, adding that the researchers were “surprised how long the effects of the treatment lasted.”
Blaiss says that while the research is still preliminary, it’s definitely a “step forward” for those with serious allergies. “We're really at the dawn of all these food allergy treatments,” Blaiss tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “It’s very exciting for people like me who have treated people for a long time and could only tell people to be cautious and bring an [EpiPen] with them at all times.”
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