One Bite Away from Death

Could you imagine getting separated from everyone else just for a small deformity? Something that can kill you could be something everyone else can eat. Not being able to taste Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Nutella, or Snickers.

Well now that might change for anyone with a peanut/ tree nut allergy. Scientists in France have been working on a peanut allergy patch that would allow a person to eat a decent amount of those tasty treats. The study has been brought over to Philadelphia for volunteers to try this new patch. The ages 1-12 have been approved, but the ages 13-55 are still working on their results. Hope is just around the corner for them.

The peanut allergy patch would be successful in saving lives left and right. Kids and teens wouldn’t have to be put at separate tables at lunch, they could eat with their friends who don’t have a nut allergy. This patch would allow people to eat up to a table spoon of peanut proteins/ powers. Now that may not sound like a lot to someone who do not have a nut allergy, but to someone like myself this a big break through. Schools wouldn’t have such a strict policy on what they can serve at lunch and this would make everyone’s lives just a bit easier.

How this peanut allergy works is it is stuck to the back near the shoulder blade and it is changed every 24 hours. The patch has peanut protein that is taken in through the skin. Each week you record how the rash has grown or shrunk over time. As the skin takes in this protein, over time it starts to develop a resistance to the protein. This helps to allow the person to have an intake of the same amount that is being put in through their body.

This break though will allow the world to become more at ease and people like me will feel safer going to gathering. Only 38% of the world has a nut allergy, but in most cases it is the most severe allergy, Anaphylaxis is a lead cause in deaths every year. This patch is going to save my life and others alike. All information for this patch will be collected July 2014 and hopefully approved by the FDA from there.
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1.How long does it take for this patch to be approved?
2.Does this patch work on sever cases?
3.Could there possibly be a way a person could eat more than one tablespoon of nut protein/powders?

5 thoughts on “One Bite Away from Death

  1. This article is really intriguing! Before reading your posting here, I didn’t even know that there is actually a patch made for people who are allergic to peanut. In my opinion, this patch is an incredible break through since we can save millions of lives if it is sold to the public later. The U.S. National Institutes of Health has completed a study on this patch in February 2015. However, they haven’t sated anything about the conclusion of this study yet.

    https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT01675882

  2. This is a very interesting blog topic on a nut allergy. Never really knew how dangerous a nut allergy could be and how scary it could be either. This is actually a good idea to try to make a cure for this like you said schools wouldn’t have to be so strict and just make the lives of people with this allergy easier. 38% of the world having a nut allergy is a big percent that I never thought would be that big. In my opinion I think everyone should try a snickers it is like the best candy ever. To answer one of your questions they can eat more than a tablespoon with the patch they can eat up to about 20 peanuts. This website I found has good information on how close the patch is coming to approval and so much more. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/food-allergy-therapies/

  3. A nut allergy can be scary. My cousin has strict rules about how close and how he can’t even touch one. I thought I would add how this trait is passed or if you just develop it. I’ve done some research and learned that our bodies mistaken the peanut proteins as something harmful. Its amazing what our body will do to react to something harmless to others and deadly to others. Thank you for helping learn more about this very interesting topic!
    http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/peanut-allergy/basics/causes/con-20027898

  4. This is a very interesting topic, and the blog post is even more intriguing because of the fact that you have a personal view to it. I think that the peanut patch is a great idea, not only for the individual who is allergic, but for their families and anyone else who might effect the individual by their food choice. Also, with some more research, I learned that even though some of the tests haven’t come back the way the scientists have hoped, there are continuous advances being made. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/821392

  5. I think the allergy patch will help people with peanut allergy a lot, it will allow them to not feel so isolated especially in the school setting. It will allow them to go shopping and not have to look at every single lable to see if it was made in a peanut free factory or not, to go to a friends house and not have to ask the parents what they have to eat how they made their food, to go to a holiday function and be able to eat anything, to go out to eat and not have to ask for a special menu, ect. This would be a big stress reliver for this individuals, its amazing how many products contain peanuts.
    If i had a child with peanut allergies i would definatly that them try the patch, worst thing that could happen is it not working!

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