Eating gradually increasing doses of store-bought, home-measured peanut butter for about 18 months enabled 100% of children with peanut allergy who initially could tolerate the equivalent of at least half a peanut to consume three tablespoons of peanut butter without an allergic reaction, researchers report.
The National Institutes for Health (NIH) says “This easy-to-implement treatment strategy could potentially fulfill an unmet need for about half of children with peanut allergy, who already can tolerate the equivalent of at least half a peanut, considered a high threshold. The findings come from a trial sponsored and funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and published Monday in the journal NEJM Evidence.
The results of this study are not relevant to the estimated 800,000 U.S. children who may have high-threshold peanut allergy, NIH reported, leaving them with only one management strategy prior to the new report: peanut avoidance.
You can read more about the study here: Therapy helps peanut-allergic kids tolerate tablespoons of peanut butter | National Institutes of Health (NIH)