In this second video in our Milk Allergy series, Children’s Allergy Program’s Director, Lynda Schneider, MD, discusses her groundbreaking study to teach severely allergic patients, like Brett Nasuti, featured in our video last week, to tolerate milk. Much like environmental allergy shots, patients get exposed to tiny amounts of the allergen—in this case, by drinking cow’s milk—so their immune systems become desensitized and don’t react to it. Until recently, the only treatment for allergies has consisted of avoiding the food and managing reactions when they occur. This exposure desensitization trial—the first of its kind in the country—represents a bold new way of thinking about food allergies.
Check back next week to see Brett take his first-ever sip of milk.
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How long before this treatment is available to the general public?
In the meantime, we’ll be adding food allergy vetted restaurants to http://www.FoodAllergiesToGo.com, so people with food allergies will have a chance to dine out and travel.
I am looking for any relief for my 3 children…all who are anaphylactic to milk and milk by-products, eggs, nuts, and seeds. It has been stressful with them going to a school that participates in a milk program where they actively try and sell milk and continue to have limited staff available so my children are left supervised by children at lunch and snack periods. They have all had reactions at school and on more than a couple occasions, the situation was handled poorly.
I worry for their safety every time they go to school. Please keep me updated on anything that could help my children.
Thanks.