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.
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.
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…
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.