Peanut Allergy Treatment Doesn’t Work

Doctors taking a second look at a peanut allergy treatment.

In Your Health Minute,

A new way of treating peanut allergies could actually increase the risk of a reaction.

A new Canadian study lookd at the effects of oral immunotherapy in which children are given small amounts of peanut protein under a doctor’s supervision.

While the treatment worked well at first, patients were more likely to have a severe allergic reaction within a year than those who did not have immunotherapy.

Some experts say a new approach to food allergy research is needed that focuses on long term real world scenarios.