This is a shitty article and it shouldn't be. "A dream team of Chicago researchers and scientists" haven't figured out shit. It's yet another attempt to guilt the world into thinking we've somehow done something wrong and that's why we're being punished with food allergies. Gut biomes? Gimme a fuckin' break. My daughter was born vaginally, her mom was born vaginally, I buy peanuts by the pound, my wife subsists on peanut butter, and at the age of 5 months our daycare provider sent my daughter into anaphylactic shock by giving her peanut butter, the way you're supposed to if you don't want your kids to develop a peanut allergy. "Oh, but you should have put her in that study, you know, that one I read about somewhere, that makes it your fault." You mean the pilot study in Cleveland that ran two years before she was born with an n of 35? That one? Or do you mean the AR101 protocol? Yeah, she's in it. In fact, she's the youngest fuckin' patient in the entire goddamn national study. Which means dragging her ass to the hospital every two weeks and making her eat peanuts with an epi-pen, a bottle of zyrtec and an albuteral inhaler at the ready. For two years. And you know what? My daughter has developed an immunity to iocaine powder. She eats Kozy Shack every goddamn day with denatured peanut powder in it. The powder is tracked, the powder must be refrigerated, doses cannot be missed and if she has any sort of reaction whatsoever it means an extra 3 hours at the hospital. But fuckin' hell, it means benadryl not epi-pen ($600 epi-pens? I haz three) so we'll call it a win. Viaskin failed efficacy, by the way. It doesn't fuckin' work. AR101? It mostly works. But for some people it's still rugged AF. It's like "would you like a minor attack every day or a major attack when you least expect it?" Racing pulses, shortness of breath, aggro shit. But then, it's basically peanut protein powder. It's not a pill. You mix it with food. You'd think you could ask shit like this if you're writing an article about it. But I guess we're too busy talking about our "dream team" of one person and her hyperallergenic rats. So we can drag that hoary skeleton "hygiene hypothesis" out of the closet and shake it at people again. Bad parent. Living too clean. Bad parent. Too many modern conveniences. Bad parent. You should have raised your kids more like your grandparents did. What's that? You did? Oh excuse me I must be going... I hate having my judgmental bubble burst. I hate imagining that tragedy could strike me down even if I live virtuously. Sub-lingual immunotherapy (SLIT), by the way? Totally and absolutely not approved for anything life threatening. Cats, dogs and pet dander? Fuckadoodledoo. Anecdata of 2 that shit works gangbusters. My wife invested heavily so she could prescribe it. She's no longer allergic to cats. Neither is my kid. But then, I don't have an epi-pen in my glove box for cats.
Dude, I would way rather have a minor attack. This article is complete bullshit, agreed. I feel completely powerless against food allergies, and it's bizarr-o since they've developed in the past year plus and are usually severe, exactly what you stated in the quote above. Give me some real news or studies on this and then it will be exciting.Viaskin failed efficacy, by the way. It doesn't fuckin' work. AR101? It mostly works. But for some people it's still rugged AF. It's like "would you like a minor attack every day or a major attack when you least expect it?" Racing pulses, shortness of breath, aggro shit. But then, it's basically peanut protein powder. It's not a pill. You mix it with food. You'd think you could ask shit like this if you're writing an article about it.
It's hard though, man. I've been poisoning my daughter for two years. Yeah, it's building her immunity but it really is a case of telling someone who trusts you implicitly with their life to keep eating something that makes their throat hurt, makes it hard to breathe, makes them feel like they're going to throw up, makes their heart race. Fortunately she's had no real reaction since reaching the maintenance dose and now she wolfs the shit down like she's getting paid (in a way she is - we recently instituted a token economy). But from everything I hear, we got off super-light. Lots of kids are full-on benadryl dependent and they're all older - they're eight or nine or ten or twelve and by the way, you have to take your dose after you're done with the day but at least three hours before bedtime and then you can't exert yourself which means after-school activities of any kind are out. Yeah. It kicks the shit out of having her uncontrollably vomit when a parent volunteer accidentally gives her a peanut butter granola bar. It beats the ever-loving jesus out of having her stare at me when I accidentally give her a gluten-free cookie that oopsie got made with coconut flour. But the reactions she had, caused by me, tore me up pretty good. You have to write them all down. Every day. Attach additional pages as necessary.