Brett Nasuti, the 12-year-old Children’s patient who last year became the first person in the country to take part in a milk allergy desensitization study, is featured in a Boston Globe article today about the rise in food allergies – and why doctors and researchers are so flummoxed by it.
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Editor’s note: This week and next, we will be doing a series on how kids can give back to other kids.One huge way kids are giving back to kids is by taking part in medical research studies. If you’re a research subject, or the parent of one, you already know that you’re mainly helping not yourself, but generations of kids to come — so that researchers can better understand the disease and find new and better treatments. In this video, the first of several posts about children in medical research, kids and parents talk about their experiences volunteering for a study and what they hope to gain. It was shot in Children’s Clinical and Translational Study Unit, our own “research central.”
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Here’s a quick look at what Thrive was up to last week.
Arianna Faro shares her story of how she’s struggled with the rare, disfiguring disease Klippel-Trenaunay (KT) syndrome, but has come to accept the role it plays in her life. A new study has reignited worries about BPA exposure being hazardous to our children. We find out in the last part of our milk allergy series if Brett Nasuti has been cured, and his mom, Robyn, tell us how the result affects her family. Parents tell us why they’ve chosen to give their children the H1N1 vaccine. The HealthMap team gives us a weekly update on the latest H1N1 news. We’re keeping up with Children’s Hospital Boston’s heart team in Ghana. Children’s resident Mediatrician helps a dad figure out how his son can balance school work and social media. A Children’s study aims to catch dyslexia before it catches your child.
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By Robyn Nasuti
What does being able to tolerate cow’s milk protein mean to my milk allergic family?
- It means Cheetos, Doritos, yogurt, pizza, Smart food, chicken parmesan and ice cream, but those are the obvious answers.
- It means using hand soap without worrying whether or not it has milk in it.
- It means no more separate pizza stones and pizza slicers.
- It means buying school lunch with friends.
- It means eating in a restaurant without stomach-turning fear.
- It means movie theater popcorn.
- It means vacation without locating the nearest Emergency Room before we go.
- It means I can buy the shampoo I used before he was diagnosed with a milk allergy.
- It means caramel candy coated apples in the fall.
- It means buying junk food at the carnival.
- It means milking a cow at our friend’s dairy farm in New Hampshire.
- It means re-booking that cancelled trip to Mexico, because they couldn’t feed him at the hotel.
- It means Boy Scout camping and school field trips (without mom or dad chaperoning every trip).
- It means sitting at a table and not having to wash it because he’d get hives if milk was present.
- It means going to a friend’s birthday party and they don’t have to put away the Doritos and chocolate candy when you arrive. It means taking home the goody bag and eating the candy rather than giving the food to his sister.
- It means we don’t have to swap out every single candy at Halloween.
But most important, it means I can kiss him and not have to stop and think about what I ate and run to brush my teeth first.
In a single word….it means FREEDOM!
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Brett Nasuti is Children’s first patient to go through a new trial that could cure him of his severe food allergy. In this final video on our series, Brett finds out if he passes the final milk challenge in the study—which culminates in him drinking a full 8-ounce glass of milk—and if he’s cured. If he passes the challenge, there’s an enormous pizza party in store for him.
Click here to read our story about Brett, Children’s milk allergy trial and experts’ latest thinking about food allergies. Full story »
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- A cure for milk allergies? Part 6: At school with Brett Nasuti
- A cure for milk allergies? Part 7: Cooking at home with the Nasutis
Brett Nasuti is the first patient to participate in a milk desensitization study at Children’s. In this video—the third in our Milk Allergy series—Brett takes his very first (tiny) sips of cow’s milk. Watch to see how he tolerates the allergen.
To watch last week’s video about Children’s Allergy Program’s Director, Lynda Schneider, MD, discussing the study, click here.
To see the first video, in which Brett and his mom, Robyn, talk about what it’s been like for their family to live with his life-threatening condition and their hopes for the trial’s outcome, click here.
To read Robyn’s account of what it was like when she found out about Brett’s severe allergies, read an excerpt from her diary.
Check back next week to see the Nasuti family take on their regular challenge of food shopping—no easy feat, considering that two out of the three Nasuti children have life-threatening food allergies.
We’d love to hear what you think; share your comments!
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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.
We’d love to hear what you think; share your thoughts here.
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- A cure for milk allergies? Part 3: Brett Nasuti takes his very first sip of milk.
- A cure for milk allergies – Part 8: Will Brett be cured of his milk allergy?
- A cure for milk allergies? Part 4: Food shopping with the Nasutis
- A cure for milk allergies? Part 5: Celebrity chef Ming Tsai discusses his passion for food-allergy awareness
