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.

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    15 days ago

    but is it like the sweeteners that give you the shits where if you stop for a month or so after not getting the shits, you get the shits again if you eat stuff with it again