ClinicalTrials.Gov

When B was first diagnosed it coincided with a piece on Good Morning America about Wesley Burks at Duke and his research involving oral desensitization for peanuts (and eggs).

I was a new PA (peanut allergy) mom and I wanted to know how I could get my daughter into a trial!

And that's how I found this site. What is it?

ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.

We're about 3,000 miles away from Duke, so no luck for us. Maybe you'll be lucky enough to be close to (and eligible) for one of these? Some of you out there will make it possible for widespread treatment to become a reality.

Us, we're not so lucky.

News from the AAAAI Annual Meeting

AAAAI: Gradual Exposure Reduces Kids' Peanut Allergy

PHILADELPHIA, March 17 -- Children with clinical peanut allergies became at least modestly tolerant after a program of oral immunotherapy, a researcher said here.

Of 20 children, 18 were eventually able to eat the equivalent of 13 peanuts with few or no allergy symptoms, reported Scott Nash, M.D., of Duke University, at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.

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This is so encouraging! I wish so badly that there were clinical trials going on in California (or even the West Coast). I would enroll Bella in a second.

What about you guys?