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Adults With Life-Threatening Peanut Allergy Can Desensitize With Daily Doses, ‘Life-Changing’ Study Shows
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Uh.... this is what most of the world does.
Kids are given tiny amounts and over time they build a resistance. Milk, peanuts, wheat.. whatever.
This is for adults
But in most countries to get rid of it as children.
huh??? all mammals start out lactose tolerant, drinking milk as infants is the defining feature of being a mammal! and most people aren't peanut/wheat/whatever intolerant ever..
Lactose intolerant is different. Young mammals produce an enzyme that breaks lactose up allowing digestion. Most stop producing it as an adult. Without it the lactose is able to pass through most of the digestive system intact.
When it gets to the colon where bacteria that can eat it lives. They start eating it and producing gas and other by products in large amounts.
This is very different then the immune response to say peanuts or wheat.