But it seems that doctors figured out how to beat this allergy. According to them, it is necessary to use the method of sublingual therapy, during which the person under the tongue dripped a few drops of the allergen dose is increased gradually, as long as the person does not appear immune to the substance, it is written in the pages of Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology .
In this case, patients suggested a few droplets of liquid peanut powder. In this experiment, 40 volunteers agreed to participate in age from 12 to 37-years-old. To some of them got really allergen, and someone had used the placebo phenomenon. Patients kept liquid 2 minutes, after which it swallowed. As stated by Dr. Wesley Burks of the Medical School at the University of North Carolina, he was very pleased, and appreciates the results of the experiment.
Initially, it was decided to give the volunteers a dose of 2 grams of powder to set the lower limit allowable level. After 11 months, the second phase of the experiment, during which, those test subjects who were able to consume 5 grams of powder and more passed a group of people with low sensitivity to peanuts.
This group included 70 percent of the original number of allergy sufferers who took part in the experiment. In the second step the volume of powder up to 5 grams, and 68 weeks later, the amount of powder equal to 996 milligrams. The placebo group was 15% of such people. Total 10855 doses were given, of which 63 per cent did not cause allergic effect.
Doctors Burks and Fleisher, in general, satisfied with the results, because the immune response was more powerful than they expected, but at the same time, the therapeutic effect was weaker than expected. This is the direction they are going to continue their studies.
