Oral Immunotherapy

• Food allergy treatments for Canadian kids could get a boost under new guidelines

  A new study is providing guidelines for oral immunotherapy to help clinicians prepare families before they begin treatment of the food allergy treatment.

  Canada

  Apr 8
  
• Is ‘oral immunotherapy’ the answer for young children with peanut allergies

  Edmond Chan of UBS says he has seen firsthand that oral immunotherapy is not only safe, but is well tolerated in a large group of preschool children.

  Commentary

  May 12, 2019
  
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• Will eating peanuts dull your child’s allergy? Experts are divided

  A new study has found that oral immunotherapy can increase your child's risk of having an anaphylactic reaction.

  Lifestyle

  Apr 30, 2019
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• New trial shows allergy treatment helps protect children against peanut reactions

  With the treatment, two-thirds of severely allergic children were able to eat two peanuts without a strong reaction.

  Health

  Nov 18, 2018
• Quebec approves pilot project for treating food allergies in kids

  Quebec's health minister announced a $782,145 investment that will allow the CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital to run a three-year pilot project for an oral immunotherapy clinic to treat children with food allergies.

  Health

  Sep 9, 2017
• Treating allergies with allergens: St. Joseph’s Hospital program praised for changing lives

  At St. Joseph's Hospital, a new food allergy clinic is actually treating kids with non-life-threatening peanut allergies with peanuts in an approach called oral immunotherapy.

  Health

  Sep 8, 2017
• This week on Focus Montreal: June 4

  This week on Focus Montreal meet Quebec superstar Kevin Parent who just released his second English album, hear from Montreal's MADA food bank about how it plans to celebrate its accomplishments and learn about oral immunotherapy, a promising new treatment to tackle food allergies in children.

  Canada

  Jun 5, 2016