Dad, Husband (@jenamcgregor), A/I doc & team lead @childrensatl, @EmoryPediatrics.
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DO NOT let them steal your joy
Jan 25, 2022 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
‼️ATTENTION: If you care about #PeanutAllergy or know someone who does, please 👀 this 🧵‼️
An extremely important study was published over the weekend... (1/N)
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
We already have good evidence that oral immunotherapy (OIT) is a treatment that can change the immune response to peanut and result in clinical desensitization, as measured by the provocative dose in a post-treatment oral food challenge. (2/N)
Jan 10, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
I'm just getting caught up after the break, & still not done. There's been a ton going on recently in the food allergy space, and in particular I want to comment on the recent work by @ruchisgupta that's gotten a lot of press.
(long thread)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…1. The reporting on the study has frustrated me quite a bit. The headlines have generally delivered clickbait conclusions, with some variation on "only half of people that claim food allergy really have one," suggesting very unhelpfully that many/most food allergies aren't real.
