✱ 6 – Doctors Give Peanuts To Kids That Are Allergic To Them
Not true at all. What doctors have done is give kids that have peanut allergies peanut oral immunotherapy. What they do is expose children to a very small amount of the allergen which is the proteins in peanuts. Once they feel they can increase the exposure over the years, then they find a dose that is good for maintenance.
The purpose is to trick the immune system to not react to peanuts as if they are dangerous. There are other types of immunotherapy of other food allergies. The peanuts one is further along and has some success.
